Recreation and Sports
- twist
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- film festival
- a cinematic festival that features films (usually films produced during the past year)
- dead-man's float
- a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward
- Pythian Games
- the ancient Panhellenic celebration at Delphi held every four years in the third year of the Olympiad in honor of Apollo
- charades
- guessing game in which one player pantomimes a word or phrase for others to guess
- lunacy
- foolish or senseless behavior
- singles
- badminton played with one person on each side
- swim
- the act of swimming
- cliff diving
- diving into the water from a steep overhanging cliff
- piaffe
- a cadenced trot executed by the horse in one spot
- 5-hitter
- a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team 5 hits
- spelaeology
- the pastime of exploring caves
- social dancing
- dancing as part of a social occasion
- battledore and shuttlecock
- an ancient racket game
- card trick
- a trick performed with playing cards
- one-step
- an early ballroom dance; precursor to the fox-trot
- saraband
- a stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries; in slow time
- practical joke
- a prank or trick played on a person (especially one intended to make the victim appear foolish)
- fives
- a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls
- contradance
- a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
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