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Definition of Ring-around-the-rosy
1. Noun. A children's game in which the players dance around in a circle and at a given signal all squat.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ring-around-the-rosy
Literary usage of Ring-around-the-rosy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rag Weed Rhymes of Rural Folks by Orlena Marian Minton (1910)
"RING AROUND THE ROSY Ring around the Rosy, That's the game for me. "Mamma's little
posy"— Any one can see. I should like to sing it, All the livelong day, ..."
2. Pacific Educational Journal by California Dept. of Public Instruction (1895)
"Thus it is that "ring-around-the-rosy" becomes a song. ... Some music has more
than rhythm, and thus the "ring-around- the-rosy" becomes a song. ..."
3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1886)
"... probably intended to represent human beings, (mound builders,) they all have
hold of bands like a company of children playing "ring around the rosy. ..."
4. Spontaneous and Supervised Play in Childhood by Alice Corbin Sies (1922)
"Then she stood a while and watched the daughter, who had persuaded the children
in the other house to come out and play Ring Around the Rosy. ..."
5. The Man who Likes Mexico: The Spirited Chronicle of Adventurous Wanderings by Owen Wallace Gillpatrick (1912)
"I think they were playing ring- around-the-rosy in Spanish. The Alameda or Parque
Hidalgo, in the older part of town, is a quaint place, circular, ..."
6. Play in Education by Joseph Lee (1915)
"And I think it is all there though in a faint and rudimentary form: the ring
around the rosy really is a ..."
7. Play in Education by Joseph Lee (1915)
"And I think it is all there though in a faint and rudimentary form: the ring
around the rosy really is a ..."
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