A child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated.

synonym: going to Jerusalem.

Dutch: stoelendans
Polish: gorące krzesła

A rearrangement that has no practical effect or significance.