red letter day, play day; high days and holidays; high holiday, Bank
holiday; May day, Derby day; Saint Monday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday;
Bairam[obs3]; wayz-goos[obs3], bean feast; Arbor Day, Declaration Day,
Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day; Mardi
gras[Fr],mi-careme[Fr], feria[Lat], fiesta. place of amusement,
theater; hall, concert room, ballroom, assemblyroom[obs3]; music hall.
park, plaisance[obs3]; national park, national forest, state park,
county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) 737a;
arbor; garden &c. (horticulture) 371; pleasure ground, playground,
cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis
court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink,
glaciarum[obs3], skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing;
montagne Russe[Fr]. game of chance, game of skill. athletic sports,
gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism &c.
(contention) 720; sports &c. 622; horse racing, the turf; aquatics &c.
267; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football,
baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and
ball, battledore and shuttlecock, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat[obs3],
croquet, golf, curling, pallone[obs3], polo, water polo; tent pegging;
tilting at the ring, quintain[obs3][medeival]; greasy pole; quoits,
horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr
and spell[obs3]. [childrens' games] leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother
may I; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the
slopper[obs3], hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross
questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks,
jackstones[obs3], marbles; mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball,
shinney, shinny, tag &c. billiards, pool, pingpong, pyramids,
bagatelle; bowls, skittles, ninepins, kain[obs3], American bowls[obs3];
tenpins [U.S.], tivoli. cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game;
loo, cribbage, besique[obs3], euchre, drole[obs3], ecarte[Fr],
picquet[obs3], allfours[obs3], quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan,
commit; boston, boaston[obs3]; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun[Fr];
quinze[Fr], thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag,
cassino[obs3], lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren[obs3], lift smoke,
blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs;
banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff,
bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante,
poker, reversis[obs3], squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor;
baccarat. [cards: list] ace, king, queen, knave, jack, ten, nine,
eight, seven, six, five, four, trey, deuce; joker; trump, wild card.
[card suits: list] spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds; major suit, minor
suit. bower; right bower, left bower; dummy; jackpot; deck. [hands at
poker: list] pair, two pair, three of a kind, straight, flush,
full-house, four of a kind, royal flush; misere &c. [board games: list]
chess, draughts, checkers, checquers, backgammon, dominos,
merelles[obs3], nine men's morris, go bang, solitaire; game of fox and
goose; monopoly; loto &c. [obs3] scrabble[word games: list], scribbage,
boggle, crossword puzzle, hangman. morra[obs3]; gambling &c. (chance)