ring play

English

Noun

ring play (countable and uncountable, plural ring plays)

  1. (US, chiefly African-American English, Caribbean) Any of various (mainly children's) games played in a circle, typically with dance movements and singing. [from 19th c.]
    • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper, published 2013, page 9:
      “They'd push me 'way from de ring plays and make out they couldn't play wid nobody dat lived on premises.”
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