ring play

noun

noun

Caribbean, US Any of various (mainly children's) games played in a circle, typically with dance movements and singing.

Chiefly African-American

Shall we have a Ring-play before we work today?1911, Scott Joplin, “The Corn-Huskers”, in Treemonisha:
“They'd push me 'way from de ring plays and make out they couldn't play wid nobody dat lived on premises.”1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper, published 2013, page 9:

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