amusement

Roget category 840

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.1. Passive affections

#840. Amusement

noun

amusement, entertainment, recreation, fun, game, fun and games — diversion, divertissement — reaction, solace — pastime, passetemps [Fr.], sport — labor of love — pleasure etc. 827.
relaxation — leisure etc. 685.
fun, frolic, merriment, jollity — joviality, jovialness^† — heyday — laughter etc. 838 — jocosity, jocoseness^† — drollery, buffoonery, tomfoolery — mummery, pleasantry — wit etc. 842 — quip, quirk.
[verbal expressions of amusement: list] giggle, titter, snigger, snicker, crow, cheer, chuckle, shout — horse laugh, belly laugh, hearty laugh — guffaw — burst of laughter, fit of laughter, shout of laughter, roar of laughter, peal of laughter — cachinnation^† — Kentish fire — tiger.
play — game, game at romps — gambol, romp, prank, antic, rig, lark, spree, skylarking, vagary, monkey trick, gambade, fredaine^†, escapade, echappee [Fr.], bout, espieglerie [Fr.] — practical joke etc. (ridicule) 856.
dance — hop, reel, rigadoon^†, saraband^†, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance — [ballroom dances: list], minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha — fandango, cancan — bayadere^† — breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis [U.S.], break dancing — nautch-girl — shindig [U.S.] — skirtdance^†, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance — galop^†, galopade^† — jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey^† — allemande [Fr.] — gavot^†, gavotte, tarantella — mazurka, morisco^†, morris dance — quadrille — country dance, folk dance — cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley — ballet etc. (drama) 599 — ball — bal, bal masque, bal costume — masquerade — Terpsichore.
festivity, merrymaking — party etc. (social gathering) 892 — blowout [U.S.], hullabaloo, hoedown, bat [U.S.], bum [U.S.], bust [Slang], clambake [U.S.], donation party [U.S.], fish fry [U.S.], jamboree [Slang], kantikoy^†, nautch^†, randy, squantum [U.S.], tear [Slang], Turnerfest^†, yule log — fete, festival, gala, ridotto^† — revels, revelry, reveling — carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks — feast, banquet etc. (food) 298 — regale, symposium, wassail — carouse, carousal — jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre [Fr.], regatta, field day — treat.
round of pleasures, dissipation, a short life and a merry one, racketing, holiday making.
rejoicing etc. 838 — jubilee etc. (celebration) 883.
bonfire, fireworks, feu-de-joie, firecracker.
holiday — gala day, red letter day, play day — high days and holidays — high holiday, Bank holiday — May day, Derby day — Saint Monday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday — Bairam^† — wayz-goos^†, 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^† — music hall.
park, plaisance^† — national park, national forest, state park, county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) 737.1; arbor — garden etc. (horticulture) 371 — pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground — tennis court, racket court — bowling alley, green alley — croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum^†, skating rink — roundabout, merry-go-round — swing — montagne Russe [Fr.].
game of chance, game of skill.
athletic sports, gymnastics — archery, rifle shooting — tournament, pugilism etc. (contention) 720 — sports etc. 622 — horse racing, the turf — aquatics etc. 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^†, croquet, golf, curling, pallone^†, polo, water polo — tent pegging — tilting at the ring, quintain [Mediev.] — greasy pole — quoits, horseshoes, discus — rounders, lacrosse — tobogganing, water polo — knurr and spell^†.
[childrens' games] leapfrog, hop skip and jump — mother may I — French and English, tug of war — blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper^†, hide and seek, kiss in the ring — snapdragon — cross questions and crooked answers.
— crisscross, hopscotch — jacks, jackstones^†, marbles — mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag &c. — billiards, pool, pingpong, pyramids, bagatelle — bowls, skittles, ninepins, kain^†, American bowls^† — tenpins [U.S.], tivoli.
cards, card games — whist, rubber — round game — loo, cribbage, besique^†, euchre, drole^†, ecarte [Fr.], picquet^†, allfours^†, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit — boston, boaston^† — blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun [Fr.] — quinze [Fr.], thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino^†, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren^†, 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^†, 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^†, nine men's morris, go bang, solitaire — game of fox and goose — monopoly — loto &c. — [word games: list], scrabble, scribbage, boggle, crossword puzzle, hangman.
morra^† — gambling etc. (chance) 621.
toy, plaything, bauble — doll etc. (puppet ) 554 — teetotum^† — knickknack etc. (trifle) 643 — magic lantern etc. (show) 448 — peep show, puppet show, raree show, gallanty show^† — toy shop — quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks and wreathed smiles" [Milton]. entertainer, showman, showgirl — dancer, tap dancer, song-and-dance man — vaudeville act — singer — musician etc. 416.
sportsman, gamester, reveler — master of ceremonies, master of revels — pompom girl^† — arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.] — arbiter bibendi [Lat.], archer, fan [U.S.], toxophilite^†, turfman^†.

verb

amuse, entertain, divert, enliven — tickle the fancy — titillate, raise a smile, put in good humor — cause laughter, create laughter, occasion laughter, raise laughter, excite laughter, produce laughter, convulse with laughter — set the table in a roar, be the death of one.
recreate, solace, cheer, rejoice — please etc. 829 — interest — treat, regale.
amuse oneself, game — play a game, play pranks, play tricks — sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care — drive dull care away — frolic, gambol, frisk, romp — caper — dance etc. (leap) 309 — keep up the ball — run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure — paint the town red [Slang] — see life — desipere in loco [Lat.], play the fool.
make holiday, keep holiday — go a Maying.
while away the time, beguile the time — kill time, dally.
smile, simper, smirk — grin, grin like a Cheshire cat — mock, laugh in one's sleeve — laugh, laugh outright — giggle, titter, snigger, crow, snicker, chuckle, cackle — burst out, burst into a fit of laughter — shout, split, roar.
shake one's sides, split one's sides, hold both one's sides — roar with laughter, die with laughter.

adjective

amusing, entertaining, diverting etc. v. — recreational, recreative, lusory^† — pleasant etc. (pleasing) 829 — laughable etc. (ludicrous) 853 — witty etc. 842 — fun, festive, festal — jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish^† — playful, playful as a kitten — sportive, ludibrious^†.
funny — very funny, hilarious, uproarious, side-splitting.
amused etc. v. — pleased with a rattle, tickled with a pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw" [Pope]; laughing etc. v. — risible — ready to burst, ready to split, ready to die with laughter — convulsed with laughter, rolling in the aisles.

adverb

on the light fantastic toe" [Milton], at play, in sport.

interjection

vive la bagatelle! [Fr.], vogue la galere! [Fr.],

phrase

deus nobis haec otia fecit [Lat.] — dum vivimus vivamus [Lat.] — dulce est desipere in loco [Lat.] [Horace]; (every room) hath blazed with lights and brayed (every room) hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy" [Timon of Athens]; misce stullitiam consiliis brevem [Lat.] [Horace].

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