Recreation and Sports
- modern dance
- a style of theatrical dancing that is not as restricted as classical ballet; movements are expressive of feelings
- skiing
- a sport in which participants must travel on skis
- jitterbug
- a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
- troll
- angling by drawing a baited line through the water
- skin diving
- underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel
- 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
- spiccato bowing
- bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings
- pinball
- a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets
- horse racing
- the sport of racing horses
- ducks and drakes
- a game in which a flat stone is bounced along the surface of calm water
- snipe hunt
- an elaborate practical joke in which the unsuspecting victim hunts a snipe and is typically left in the dark holding a bag and waiting for the snipe to run into it
- one-step
- an early ballroom dance; precursor to the fox-trot
- golf game
- a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes
- revel
- unrestrained merrymaking
- round dance
- a folk dance; dancers form a circle
- exacta
- a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order
- phrase
- dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
- gymnastic exercise
- a sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility
- practical joke
- a prank or trick played on a person (especially one intended to make the victim appear foolish)
- strip
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
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