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Traditional Middle Eastern dance

When immigrants from Arab States began to arrive in New York in the 1930s, dancers started to perform in nightclubs and restaurants. Some of today's most accomplished performers are their descendants, e.g. Anahid Sofian, Aisha Ali, and Artemis Mourat.^[12][13]
In the late 1960s and early 1970s many dancers began teaching. Middle Eastern or Eastern bands took dancers with them on tour, which helped spark interest in the dance.
Although using traditional Turkish and Egyptian movements, American Cabaret or American Restaurant belly dancing has developed its own distinctive style, using props and encouraging audience interaction. Many modern practitioners make use of the music of Egyptian Sha'abi singers, including Ahmed Adaweya, Hakim, and Saad el Soghayar in their routines, which combines the percussion of modern Egyptian music with a traditional feeling for music and dance in the Raks Sha'abi (dance of the people) style.
Raqs Sharqi continues to be widely practiced. Maria Jammal and Mahmoud Reda, both being of Middle Eastern descent are noted for its substantial presence in the U.S.

[edit] American Tribal Style

Main article: American Tribal Style Belly Dance

Further information: Improv Tribal Style Belly Dance

American Tribal Style Belly Dance performance in Pacifica, California (2004).

In 1987, a unique and original American style, American Tribal Style Belly Dance, (ATS), was created. Although a wholly modern style, its steps are based on a fusion of ancient dance techniques from North India, the Middle East, and Africa.
Tribal style dance is characterized by muscle isolation to create smooth, undulating movements. Like other forms of belly dance, Tribal dance is more accessible than many other dance styles to people with a wider range of body types, ages, and health problems.^[14]

[edit] Tribal Fusion

Main article: Tribal Fusion (dance form)

Further information: Bellydance Superstars

Many forms of "Tribal Fusion" belly dance have also developed, incorporating elements from many other dance and music styles including flamenco, ballet, burlesque, hula hoop and even hip hop. "Gothic Belly Dance" is a style which incorporates elements from Goth subculture.

[edit] Europe

Performance in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2010.

Belly dance has been practiced in Europe since the 1960s.
Many dancers in Great Britain credit the developments since the 1980s to Suraya Hilal, who performed throughout the Middle East and Europe during this time, and who appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1980 and 1982.Suraya Hilal.
Today, many European belly dancers have been greatly influenced by the US dance hybrids, and have gone on to create their own forms of urban and folk bellydance. There is also a thriving scene in cabaret bellydance/burlesque crossover performance. American Tribal Style Bellydance is becoming increasingly popular as an alternative. There are a number of belly dance festivals popular in Europe.

[edit] Australia

The first wave of interest for belly dancing in Australia was during the late 1970s to 1980s with the influx of migrants and refugees escaping troubles in the Middle East, including drummer Jamal Zraika. These immigrants created a lively social scene including numerous Lebanese and Turkish restaurants, providing employment for belly dancers.
Early dance pioneers included Amera Eid and Terezka Drnzik. Both of these teachers have pedigrees linked back to Rozeta Ahalyea. Belly dance has now spread across the country, with vibrant belly dance communities in every capital city and many regional centres.

[edit] Fitness and health

In the Western world, belly dance classes are advertised to as a form of physical exercise for health and fitness reasons besides as a performance art.
Belly dance is a non-impact, weight-bearing exercise and is thus suitable for all ages, and is a good exercise for the prevention of osteoporosis in older people. The isolations improve flexibility of the torso. Dancing with the veil can help build strength in the upper-body, arm and shoulders.
According to Paffrath (2005), playing the zills trains fingers to work independently and builds strength. The legs and long muscles of the back are strengthened by hip movements. Paffrath also researched the effect of belly dance on women with menstruation problems. The subjects reported a more positive approach toward their menstruation, sexuality, and bodies. ^[15]

[edit] In western pop culture

Belly dancing has recently been repopularized by Latin American superstar Shakira. Although she was born and raised in Colombia to a Colombian mother and a Lebanese father, her Lebanese background has influenced her style.
The Brazilian novella O Clone also known as El Clon in Spanish-speaking countries and the United States, is set in Brazil and Morocco and featured belly dancing in many episodes. The lead character, Jade (Giovanna Antonelli), used it to entice her lover Lucas (Murilo Benício) and to soothe and seduce her husband Said (Dalton Vigh).
Several James Bond films have featured belly dancers. In The Man With the Golden Gun, the belly dancer Saida wears a spent bullet in her navel, which Bond accidentally swallows while trying to retrieve it.
R&B singer Aaliyah used the belly roll as her signature move. Other singers and actresses who have performed belly dance moves include Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Yvonne De Carlo, Jessica Simpson, Beyoncé, and Ciara.
Probably the most famous belly dance troupe is the group formed by Miles Copeland, Bellydance Superstars tours internationally, furthering the popularity of bellydance around the world by performing over 700 shows in over 22 countries. The troupe now performs in much the same venues as Riverdance and other mainstream dance shows. The shows have made stars of several of its dancers, including Rachel Brice, Jillina, Sonia, Petite Jamilla, and Kami Liddle.
Documentaries about belly dance include American Bellydancer, Belly, and Temptation of Bellydance.

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Traditional styles

[edit] Egyptian belly dance

In Egypt, three main forms of the traditional dance are associated with belly dance, called Baladi, Sharqi and Sha'abi.

• Baladi is a folk style of dance from the Arab tribes who settled in Upper Egypt. The term has come to refer to the folk dance still performed by the working classes of urbanised Egypt. Dance which more rigorously tries to uphold folk traditions from the countryside or from specific tribes will often be referred to as Ghawahzee. The Ghawahzee dancers have also been known to be at the heart of the conflict in Egypt over the propriety of publicly performed dance. The well-reputed Mazin sisters are widely held to be the last authentic performers of Ghawahzee dance. Khayreyya Mazin is currently the last of these dancers still teaching and performing as of 2009.^[8]
• Sharqi is based on the baladi style but was further developed by Samia Gamal, Tahiya Karioka, Naima Akef, and other dancers who rose to fame during the golden years of the Egyptian film industry. This has come to be considered the classical style of dance in Egypt. These dancers were famous not only for their role in Egyptian films, but also for their performances at the "Opera Casino" opened in 1925 by Badia Masabni. This venue was a popular place for influential musicians and choreographers from both the US and Europe. Later dancers who were influenced by these artists are Sohair Zaki, Fifi Abdou, and Nagwa Fouad. All rose to fame between 1960 and 1980, and are still popular today. Some of these later dancers were the first to choreograph and perform dances using a full 'orchestra' and stage set-up, which had a huge influence upon what is considered the 'classical' style.
• Sha'abi (شعبي) refers to the poorer, commoner sections of Cairo. The name came to characterize the style of music enjoyed in such neighborhoods. The style is somewhat rougher and more playful than the rest of Egyptian pop music. Sha'abi dance is Egyptian belly dance performed to such music, typically performed more assertively sexual than is classical raqs sharqi.

In spite of the classical status of Egyptian bellydance in western perception, Egyptians do not consider it a respectable profession, and most belly dancers performing for tourists in Egypt today are foreigners. Dancers are not allowed to perform certain movements or do any floor work.
State television in Egypt no longer broadcasts belly dancing. A plan to establish a state institute to train belly dancers in Egypt came under heavy fire as it "seriously challenges the Egyptian society's traditions and glaringly violates the constitution," according to a member of parliament.^[9]

[edit] Greek and Turkish belly dance

Some mistakenly believe that Turkish oriental dancing is called Çiftetelli because this style of music has been incorporated into oriental dancing by Arabs and Greeks. In fact, Greek and Cypriot belly dance is called Tsifteteli. However, Turkish Çiftetelli is actually a form of lively wedding music and is not connected with oriental dancing.
Turkish, Greek, and Cypriot belly dance today may have been influenced by Arabs before the Ottoman Empire as much as by the Egyptian, Syrian and Lebanese forms.
Turkish law does not impose restrictions on dancers as they do in Egypt. This has resulted in a marked difference in style - Egyptian bellydance is noted for its restraint and elegance, whereas Turkish bellydance is playful and uninhibited. Turkish belly dance costumes have been very revealing, although there is a move towards more modest, Egyptian-style costuming.
Many professional dancers and musicians in Turkey continue to be of Romani heritage, which is the great part of a varied fusion in this dance. (There is also a distinct Turkish Romani dance style which is different from Turkish Oriental.) Turkish dancers are known for their energetic, athletic (even gymnastic) style, and their adept use of finger cymbals, also known as zils. Connoisseurs of Turkish dance often say a dancer who cannot play the zills is not an accomplished dancer. Another distinguishing element of Turkish style is the use of the Karsilama rhythm in a 9/8 time signature, counted as 12-34-56-789. Famous Turkish belly dancers include Tulay Karaca, Nesrin Topkapi and Birgul Berai and Didem

[edit] Belly dance in the West

[edit] United States

It has been suggested that this section be split into a new article titled Belly dance in the United States. (Discuss)

Belly dancer and fitness instructor Amira Mor giving a belly dance class at the Marine Hill Fitness Center at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in 2010.

[edit] Early history

The term "belly dancing" is generally credited to Sol Bloom, entertainment director of the 1893 World's Fair, the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, although he consistently referred to the dance as "danse du ventre," of which "belly dance" is a literal translation. In his memoirs, Bloom states only that "when the public learned...danse du ventre...I had a gold mine."
Although there were dancers of this type at the 1876 Centennial in Philadelphia, it was not until the Chicago World's Fair that it gained national attention. There were authentic dancers from several Middle Eastern and North African countries, including Syria, Turkey and Algeria, but it was the dancers in the Egyptian Theater of The Street in the Cairo exhibit who gained the most notoriety. The fact that the dancers were uncorseted and gyrated their hips was shocking to Victorian sensibilities. There were no soloists, but it is claimed that a dancer nicknamed Little Egypt stole the show. Some claim the dancer was Farida Mazar Spyropoulos, but this fact is disputed.^[10]
The popularity of these dancers subsequently spawned dozens of imitators, many of whom claimed to be from the original troupe. Victorian society continued to be affronted by this "shocking" dance, and dancers were sometimes arrested and fined.^[11] The dance was nicknamed the "Hootchy-Kootchy" or "Hoochee-Coochie", or the shimmy and shake. A short film, "Fatima's Dance", was widely distributed in the nickelodeons. It drew criticism for its "immodest" dancing, and was eventually censored. Belly dance drew men in droves to burlesque theaters, and to carnival and circus lots.
Thomas Edison made several films of dancers in the 1890s. These included a Turkish dance, and Crissie Sheridan in 1897, and Princess Rajah from 1904, which features a dancer playing zills , doing "floor work", and balancing a chair in her teeth.
Ruth St. Denis also used Middle Eastern-inspired dance in D.W. Griffith's silent film Intolerance, her goal being to lift dance to a respectable art form at a time when dancers were considered to be women of loose morals. Hollywood began producing films such as The Sheik, Cleopatra, and Salomé, to capitalize on Western fantasies of the orient.

[edit] Traditional Middle Eastern dance

When immigrants from Arab States began to arrive in New York in the 1930s, dancers started to perform in nightclubs and restaurants. Some of today's most accomplished performers are their descendants, e.g. Anahid Sofian, Aisha Ali, and Artemis Mourat.^[12][13]
In the late 1960s and early 1970s many dancers began teaching. Middle Eastern or Eastern bands took dancers with them on tour, which helped spark interest in the dance.
Although using traditional Turkish and Egyptian movements, American Cabaret or American Restaurant belly dancing has developed its own distinctive style, using props and encouraging audience interaction. Many modern practitioners make use of the music of Egyptian Sha'abi singers, including Ahmed Adaweya, Hakim, and Saad el Soghayar in their routines, which combines the percussion of modern Egyptian music with a traditional feeling for music and dance in the Raks Sha'abi (dance of the people) style.
Raqs Sharqi continues to be widely practiced. Maria Jammal and Mahmoud Reda, both being of Middle Eastern descent are noted for its substantial presence in the U.S.

[edit] American Tribal Style

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Costume In the West, the costume most associated with belly dance is the bedlah (Arabic for "suit"). It owes its creation to the Victorian painters of "Orientalism" and the early harem fantasy productions of vaudeville, burlesque, and Hollywood, rather than to authentic Middle Eastern dress.
The bedlah style includes a fitted top or bra (usually with a fringe of beads or coins), a fitted hip belt (again with a fringe of beads or coins), and a skirt or harem pants. The bra and belt may be richly decorated with beads, sequins, braid and embroidery. The belt may be a separate piece, or sewn into a skirt.
Badia Masabni, a shrewd Lebanese, Cairo cabaret owner and dance instructor is credited with bringing the costume to Egypt, because it was the image that Western tourists wanted. She is also credited for modernizing the traditional belly dance. This style of belly dancing is considered "Lebanese" or Shami.
The hip belt is a broad piece of fabric worn low on the hips. It may have straight edge, or may be curved or angled. The bra usually matches the belt and does not resemble lingerie. The classic harem pants are full and gathered at the ankle, but there are many variations. Sometimes pants and a sheer skirt are worn together. Skirts may be flowing creations made of multiple layers of one color sheer fabric chiffon.
Since the 1950s, it has been illegal in Egypt for raqs sharqi dancers to perform publicly with their midriff uncovered ^[7] or to display excessive skin. It is therefore becoming more common to wear a long, figure-hugging lycra one-piece gown with strategically placed cut-outs filled in with sheer, flesh-coloured fabric. If a separate bra and skirt are worn, a belt is rarely used and any embellishment is embroidered directly on the tight, sleek lycra skirt. A sheer body stocking must be worn to cover the midsection. Egyptian dancers traditionally dance in bare feet, but these days often wear shoes and even high heels.
Khan al Khalili, the major traditional souk (open market) in Cairo, is the world's most popular spot for bellydance wear/Raqswear and continues to attract millions of visitors every year.
As there is no prohibition on showing the stomach in Lebanon, the bedleh style is more common. The skirts tend to be sheer, although many Lebanese belly dancers opt for the shirwal pants with a bra. The veil is more widely used and the veil matches the outfit. High heels are a trademark of Lebanese belly dancers.
Turkish dancers also wear bedleh style costumes. In the 80s and 90s a 'stripperesque' costume style developed, with skirts designed to display both legs up to the hip, and plunging bras. Such styles still exist in some venues but there are also many Turkish belly dancers who wear more moderate costumes. Even so, Turkish belly dance costumes reflect the playful, flirty style of Turkish belly dance.
Hallmarks of the classical "American" style include a headband with fringe, sheer harem pants or skirt rather than tight lycra, and the use of coins and metalwork to decorate the bra. However, it's also common for American dancers to buy their costumes by Egyptian costume designers.
For the folkloric and baladi dances, a full-length beledi dress or galabeyah is worn, with or without cutouts.
A typical American Tribal style costume has voluminous pants covered with one or more skirts and belts. The top is usually a coin bra with pieces hanging from it, and dancers wear flowers, headbands, metal headdresses, and other folkoric-inspired pieces in their hair. They also often wear bindis and sport large tattoos that travel around the hip and belly area.
Tribal fusion costumes are limited only by the imagination and reflect the styles being fused.

[edit] Props

Props are used, especially in American restaurant style, to spark audience interest and add variety to the performance, although some traditionalists frown on their use. Some props in common usage are:

• Candelabra headdress (shamadan)
• Cane (in the Saiidi)
• Fan (mostly in Tribal)
• Fanveils
• Finger cymbals (zills or sagats)
• Fire sticks (mostly in Tribal)
• Isis Wings
• Tambourine
• Snakes (usually either pythons or boa constrictors)
• Sword
• Veil poi (mostly in Tribal belly dance)
• Veil

[edit] Traditional styles

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Origins and early history

Further information: Middle Eastern dance and Ghawazee

L'Almée by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1863).

Egyptian dancer Ashea Wabe, performing as "Little Egypt", photograph by Benjamin Falk ca. 1896.

Oriental dance as an umbrella term groups a large number of regional folk traditions throughout the Middle East.
The ghawazee of were travelling female dancers of Dom (Gypsy) ethnicity in Egypt during the 18th to 19th centuries. They were banished from Cairo to Upper Egypt by Muhammad Ali in the 1830s. ^[1] The dance style of the ghawazee was popularized in Europe under the term "belly-dance" in 19th-century Orientalism. Around this time, dancers from the Middle East also began to perform at various World's Fairs, often drawing crowds in numbers that rivaled those for the science and technology exhibits. It was during this period that the term "oriental" or "eastern" dancing is first used. Several dancers, including the French author Colette, engaged in "oriental" dancing, sometimes passing off their own interpretations as authentic. Also the pseudo-Javanese dancer Mata Hari, convicted in 1917 by the French for being a German spy, danced in a style similar to belly dance.
The ghawazee were made famous in Europe by writers such as Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) and Gustav Flaubert (1821-1880). The French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) executed a series of paintings depicting them, the best known among these was L'Almée or Le danse the ventre, which caused considerable scandal at the Salon of 1864 in Paris,^[2] and sent other painters to Egypt in the search of "belly-dance". In 1881, the Austrian painter Leopold Carl Müller was given an audience with Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria in Girga in Upper Egypt. Müller in a letter to his friend August von Pettenkofen expressed his intrigue, saying "...and in the evening we saw Egyptian dancers. One should use Gérôme for an example! I am so curious to know what Gérôme would do if he were here."^[3] Müller and Gérôme shared the same dealer in London, Henry Wallis, and had exhibited paintings at his French Gallery in the Pall Mall. Müller's depiction of an Egyptian dancer, titled An Almée's Admirers, was exhibited there in 1882.
In the early 20th century, the urban Egyptian raqs sharqi style developed, based on ghawazi and other folk styles and formed by western influences such as marching bands, the Russian ballet, Latin dance, etc. This hybrid style was performed in the cabarets of interbellum period Egypt and in early Egyptian cinema.
When belly dance became popular in the United States during the '60's and '70's, teachers sought to distance the dance form from the sleazy reputation it had developed in vaudeville and burlesque, by developing "ancient origin" theories for the dance, emphasizing a woman-centered background, ideally associated with Goddess worship, popular in feminism at the time, or childbirth,^[4] and de-emphasizing traditions associated with erotic entertainment and prostitution.^[5] The supposed connection of bellydance with motherhood and childbirth is based on an account in the highly romanticised autobiography The Dancer of Shamahka (1918, trans. 1922), by Armenian dancer Armen Ohanian. Ohanian presents a romaniticized vision of the Orient and takes an antimodernist and anticolonialist stance, berating the "desctructive breath of the Occident" for ruining the "primitive purity" of "olden Asia".^[6]

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Panasonic updates its New Lumix point-and-shoot for 2011

It’s a new year, and everyone’s launching new model or refreshing old ones. Panasonic unveiled its Lumix point-and-shoot lineup in January for the year 2011, but they never really gave any price point. But now the wait is over as the DMC-ZS10, DMC-ZS8, DMC-TS3 and DMC-FX78 are all being officially priced this week. All but the ZS8 supports the company’s new 3D Photo mode, which produces a realistic 3D photo by taking 20 consecutive photos and overlaying the two best images to provide a 3D image that can then be played on a Panasonic VIERA 3D HDTV. The format of the 3D image is compatible with MPO, and can also be played back on other MPO-compatible equipment such as a televisions, digital photo frames and printers.

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20,000 People dead-missing in Japan crisis-By Olivia Hampton
Workers struggled Sunday to restore power to a nuclear plant’s overheating reactors as the toll of dead or missing from Japan’s worst natural disaster in nearly a century surpassed 20,000.
The discovery of radiation in foodstuffs in regions around the plant, and of traces of radioactive iodine in Tokyo tap water well to the southwest, compounded public anxiety but authorities said there was no danger to health.
The Fukushima No. 1 plant was struck on March 11 by a massive earthquake and tsunami which, with 8,133 people confirmed killed, is Japan’s deadliest natural disaster since the Great Kanto quake levelled much of Tokyo in 1923.
Another 12,272 are missing, feared lost to the tsunami or buried in the wreckage of buildings. For half a million survivors, many huddled in poorly supplied and spartan shelters, conditions in the icy north are miserable.
Related article: Nuclear fears compound misery of Japan survivors
In Miyagi prefecture on the devastated northeast coast, where the 10-metre (33-foot) tsunami reduced entire towns to splintered matchwood, the death toll stood at 4,882.
But Miyagi police chief Naoto Takeuchi told a task force meeting that his prefecture alone “will need to secure facilities to keep the bodies of more than 15,000 people”, Jiji Press reported.
According to the charity Save the Children, around 100,000 children were displaced by the disaster, and signs of trauma are evident among survivors as the nuclear emergency and countless aftershocks heighten their terror.
“We found children in desperate conditions, huddling around kerosene lamps and wrapped in blankets,” Save the Children spokesman Ian Woolverton said after visiting a number of evacuation centres in Japan’s tsunami-hit northeast.
“They told me about their anxieties, especially their fears about radiation,” Woolverton said, adding that several youngsters had mentioned the US atom bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which they know from school.
Cooling systems that are meant to protect the Fukushima plant’s six reactors from a potentially disastrous meltdown were knocked out by the tsunami, and engineers have been battling ever since to put a lid on rising temperatures.
The radiation-suited crews were striving to partially restore electricity to the ageing facility 250 kilometres (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo, after extending a high-voltage cable into the site from the national grid.
But plant operator TEPCO said it would be hard by the end of Sunday to restart power to the cooling systems on two reactors that were badly damaged when a series of explosions tore away their outer buildings.
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Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation.^[1] Activities such as personal reading or practicing a musical instrument are considered to be hobbies.
Entertainment may also provide fun, enjoyment and laughter. The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry. There are many forms of entertainment for example: cinema, theatre, sports, games and social dance. Puppets, clowns, pantomimes and cartoons tend to appeal to children, though adults may also find them enjoyable.

Contents [hide] 1 Forms of entertainment 1.1 Animation 1.2 Cinema and theater 1.3 Comedy 1.4 Comics 1.5 Dance and music 1.6 Games 1.7 Other forms of entertainment 2 See also 3 Footnotes 4 External links

[edit] Forms of entertainment

[edit] Animation

An animated cartoon horse

Some people find animation to be amusing. Similarly, some people find cartoons to be entertaining.^[2]

[edit] Cinema and theater

Many people find cinema /or theater and other live performance such as circus, plays, musicals, farces, monologues and pantomimes to be entertaining.

[edit] Comedy

Comedy provides laughter and amusement. The audience is taken by surprise, by the parody or satire of an unexpected effect or an opposite expectations of their cultural beliefs. Slapstick film, one-liner joke, observational humor are forms of comedy which have developed since the early days of jesters and traveling minstrels.^[3]

[edit] Comics

Felix the Cat comic strip

Comics contain text and drawings which convey an entertaining narrative.^[4] Several famous comics revolve around super heroes such as Superman and Batman. Marvel Comics and DC Comics are two publishers of comic books. Manga is the Japanese word for comic and print cartoons.
Caricature is a graphical entertainment. The purpose may vary from merely putting smile on the viewers face, to raising social awareness, to highlighting the moral vices of a person being caricatured.

[edit] Dance and music

Many people find involvement in social dance to be entertaining. Some interesting people listen to or watch musical entertainment.

[edit] Games

Bingo

Games provide relaxation and diversion. Games may be played by one person for their own entertainment, or by a group of people. Games may be played for achievement or money such as gambling or bingo. Racing, chess or checkers may develop physical or mental prowess. Games may be geared for children, or may be played outdoors such as lawn bowling. Equipment may be necessary to play the game such as a deck of cards for card games, or a board and markers for board games such as Monopoly, or backgammon.^[5] This can include ball games, Blind man's bluff, board games, card games, children's games, croquet, Frisbee, hide and seek, number games, paintball and video