Recreation and Sports
- comedy ballet
- a ballet that stresses the drama with features of comedy
- cycling
- the sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle
- handball
- a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands
- rag
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- ghost dance
- a religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead
- ring-a-rosy
- a children's game in which the players dance around in a circle and at a given signal all squat
- bout
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- toss
- the act of flipping a coin
- parade
- a visible display
- pas de deux
- (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)
- word play
- playing on words or speech sounds
- do-si-do
- a square-dance figure; two dancers approach each other and circle back to back before returning to their original places
- no-hit game
- a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team no hits
- beagling
- hunting rabbits with beagles
- polo
- a game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball
- fireman
- play in which children pretend to put out a fire
- piping
- playing a pipe or the bagpipes
- 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
- prestidigitation
- manual dexterity in the execution of tricks
- dune cycling
- bicycling or motorcycling on sand dunes
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