Recreation and Sports
- revel
- unrestrained merrymaking
- quadrille
- a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
- track and field
- participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it
- hoofing
- dancing in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures
- water-skiing
- skiing on water while being towed by a motorboat
- row
- the act of rowing as a sport
- fives
- a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls
- clog dancing
- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- field sport
- a sport that is played outdoors
- fly-fishing
- angling with an artificial fly as a lure
- ultimate frisbee
- a game between two teams whose players try to toss a Frisbee to one another until they cross the opponents goal; possession changes hands when the Frisbee is intercepted or touches the ground or goes out of bounds
- day game
- a game played in daylight
- superfecta
- a bet that you can pick the first four finishers in a race in the right order
- apache dance
- a violent fast dance in French vaudeville (an apache is a member of the French underworld)
- spin
- a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion)
- athletic game
- a game involving athletic activity
- fireman
- play in which children pretend to put out a fire
- half gainer
- a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board
- prisoner's base
- a children's game; two teams capture opposing players by tagging them and taking them to their own base
- shuffleboard
- a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface
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