Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
ring play en · NOUN
Meanings
-
(Caribbean, US, countable, qualifier:chiefly African-American, uncountable) Any of various (mainly children's) games played in a circle, typically with dance movements and singing.
“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:Shall we have a Ring-play before we work today?
1911, Scott Joplin, “The Corn-Huskers”, in Treemonisha:
Forms