Recreation and Sports
- roulette
- a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in
- fan tan
- a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4)
- hornpipe
- a British solo dance performed by sailors
- pursuit
- an auxiliary activity
- American football game
- a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays
- parlay
- a series of wagers in which the winnings from one wager are used as a stake for the subsequent wagers
- Bacchanalia
- an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus)
- harmonisation
- singing in harmony
- drawing
- players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
- sporting life
- active interest in gambling on sports events
- gavotte
- an old formal French dance in quadruple time
- extemporization
- a performance given extempore without planning or preparation
- surf casting
- casting (artificial) bait far out into the ocean (up to 200 yards) with the waves breaking around you
- clog dancing
- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- drollery
- a quaint and amusing jest
- cakewalk
- a strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake
- quickstep
- a ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps
- conjuration
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- break dance
- a form of solo dancing that involves rapid acrobatic moves in which different parts of the body touch the ground; normally performed to the rhythm of rap music
- rounders
- an English ball game similar to baseball
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