Recreation and Sports
- gavotte
- an old formal French dance in quadruple time
- professional tennis
- playing tennis for money
- eightsome
- a Scottish reel for eight dancers
- tobogganing
- riding on a long light sled with low handrails
- comedy ballet
- a ballet that stresses the drama with features of comedy
- Saturnalia
- an orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn
- folk dance
- a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)
- shimmy
- lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
- last hurrah
- a final performance or effort (especially before retirement)
- horseback riding
- the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
- flamenco
- a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet
- singing
- the act of singing vocal music
- rhumba
- a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement
- bicycling
- riding a bicycle
- swimming
- the act of swimming
- bubble dance
- a solo dance similar to a fan dance except large balloons are used instead of fans
- pigsticking
- the sport of hunting wild boar with spears
- show
- the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining
- feria
- (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint
- quadrille
- a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
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