ring play

English

Noun

ring play (countable and uncountable, plural ring plays)

1. (US, chiefly African-American, 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.”