Recreation and Sports
- banking game
- any gambling game in which bets are laid against the gambling house or the dealer
- sea bathing
- bathing in the sea or ocean
- cakewalk
- a strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake
- stomp
- a dance involving a rhythmical stamping step
- courante
- a court dance of the 16th century; consisted of short advances and retreats
- one-step
- an early ballroom dance; precursor to the fox-trot
- rope-a-dope
- a boxing tactic: pretending to be trapped against the ropes while your opponent wears himself out throwing punches
- drawing
- players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
- edutainment
- entertainment that is intended to be educational
- natural
- (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake
- track and field
- participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it
- bullfighting
- the activity at a bullfight
- clog dancing
- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- pursuit
- an auxiliary activity
- caroling
- singing joyful religious songs (especially at Christmas)
- program
- a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation
- dressage
- maneuvers of a horse in response to body signals by the rider
- April fool
- a practical joke or trick played on the first day of April
- danse macabre
- a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave
- deception
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
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