Recreation and Sports
- Charleston
- an American ballroom dance in syncopated rhythm; popular early in the 20th century
- natation
- the act of someone who floats on the water
- adagio
- a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers
- mind game
- any game designed to exercise the intellect
- magic
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- tango
- a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin
- pallone
- an Italian game similar to tennis
- place bet
- a bet that a horse will finish a race no worse than second
- singing
- the act of singing vocal music
- fly casting
- casting an artificial fly as a lure
- stroke play
- golf scoring by total strokes taken
- Hawaiian dancing
- a Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman
- militainment
- entertainment with military themes in which the Department of Defense is celebrated
- tetherball
- a game with two players who use rackets to strike a ball that is tethered to the top of a pole; the object is to wrap the string around the pole
- snake dance
- a ceremonial dance (as by the Hopi) in which snakes are handled or invoked
- hockey
- a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net
- sumo
- a Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground
- doubles
- badminton played with two players on each side
- archery
- the sport of shooting arrows with a bow
- cast
- the act of throwing dice
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