Recreation and Sports
- cross-country riding
- riding horses across country over obstructions to demonstrate horsemanship
- game of chance
- a game that involves gambling
- clog dancing
- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- 3-hitter
- a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team only 3 hits
- agon
- a festivity in ancient Greece at which competitors contended for prizes
- paper chase
- an outdoor game; one group of players (the hares) start off on a long run scattering bits of paper (the scent) and pursuers (the hounds) try to catch them before they reach a designated spot
- skateboarding
- the sport of skating on a skateboard
- conjuration
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- fly-fishing
- angling with an artificial fly as a lure
- ballroom dancing
- any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
- belly dancing
- a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen
- daisy cutter
- a batted or served ball that skims along close to the ground
- yodeling
- singing by changing back and forth between the chest voice and a falsetto
- tightrope walking
- walking on a tightrope or slack rope
- karaoke
- singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs)
- lacrosse
- a game invented by American Indians; now played by two teams who use long-handled rackets to catch and carry and throw the ball toward the opponents' goal
- gavotte
- an old formal French dance in quadruple time
- drawing
- players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
- skank
- a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
- royal tennis
- an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court
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