n.
An activity involving several individuals jumping (or piling) on top of an unfortunate victim, forming a pile of people. This person then becomes the target of the pile-on.
Pile-ons are often deliberately instigated as pranks.
This is normally triggered by someone mentioning the words "pile on", or a word phonetically similar, e.g. "pylon".
Synonyms:
stacks-on (Australia), bundle, monkey pile, pig pile, or dog pile.
n. American English
Also carrousel.
A revolving circular platform with seats often formed like animals on which people ride, as at an amusement park.
British English: merry-go-round.
Synonym:
roundabout, whirligig, galloper
n.
A contest of strength in which two teams tug on opposite ends of a rope, each trying to pull the other across a dividing line.
Also called tug o' war, tug war, or rope pulling.
n.
A graphic puzzle, the solution of which is an uninterrupted path through an intricate pattern of line segments from a starting point to a goal.
n.
A logic-based placement puzzle in which numbers must be fit into a 9x9 grid such that each numeral appears exactly once in each row, column and each of nine 3x3 blocks.
The name "Sudoku" is from Japanese 数独, meaning "the digits must occur only once".
Sudoku was invented by an American but popularized by the Japanese.
Also known as Number Place.
n.
A light plastic hoop that is whirled around the body for play or exercise by the movement of the hips.
pl. n.
A game played with a set of 28 small flat oblong blocks marked on one side with two groups of dots.
Also dominos.
n.
A board game for two persons, played with pieces whose moves are determined by throws of dice.
n.
Small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the faces, used to generate random numbers. This makes dice suitable as gambling devices.
Synonym:
die
n. American English
A gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and often by pulling down on a long handle.
British English: fruit machine.
Australian English: poker machine.
n.
A plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with an elastic strap attached to the prongs, used for flinging small stones.
Synonym:
catapult, sling.
n.
A recreational activity of using one's fingers to manipulate a pen in aesthetically pleasing ways.
This is done through the combination of various tricks.
n.
Formerly known as cup stacking.
An individual and team activity / game played using plastic cups.
Participants of sport stacking stack and unstack cups in pre-determined sequences, competing against the clock or another player. Sequences are usually pyramids of three, six or ten upside-down cups.
n.
Rubik's Cube or informally Rubix Cube is a mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik.
Originally called the Magic Cube by its inventor, it was renamed Rubik's Cube in 1980 and released worldwide in May of that year. It is said to be the world's best-selling toy.
n.
Children's game in which players hold a jump rope at each end and twirl it in a circle, while one or more players jump over it each time it reaches its lowest point.
Jumping rope is an activity that is not only for competition or recreation, but for a cardiovascular workout, just like jogging or bicycle riding.
Also called skipping rope or skip rope.
n.
A game in which players walk to music around a group of chairs containing one chair fewer than the number of players and rush to sit down when the music stops. The player left standing in each round is eliminated.
n.
A children's game in which players toss a small object (eg. stone) into the numbered spaces of a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces to retrieve the object.
v.
To move in or as if in a series of irregular jumps.
n.
The act or game of riding a seesaw.
Seesaw is a long plank balanced on a central fulcrum so that with a person riding on each end, one end goes up as the other goes down.
Also called regionally dandle, dandle board, teedle board, teeter, teeterboard, teeter-totter, tilt, tilting board.
