Definition of "ring-around-the-rosy" []

• A children's game in which the players dance around in a circle and at a given signal all squat (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "She and Addie grabbed hands and jumped up and down together, like when my sister, Angelica, used to make me play ring-around-the-rosy."
• "The village children played ring-around-the-rosy and danced with the lord's child."
• "But he has a convincing lyricism and an especially supple back, and Morris uses his different look by putting him in the middle of a six-man ring-around-the-rosy circle, where he suffers (from what?), survives, is mentored by the Bowie figure, and is absorbed back into the group."