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elastics

elastics noun: a children's game in which players perform various jumping and trapping manoeuvres on long loops of elastic band stretched between two other players. Also the plural of elastic.

Noun

elastics

  1. A children's game in which players perform various jumping and trapping manoeuvres on long loops of elastic band stretched between two other players.
    • We could play elastics, or skipping, without the need of anyone else to stand in the loops or hold the rope.2010, Jacinta Tynan, Some Girls Do...: My Life as a Teenager

Also used as

elastics is also the plural of elastic.

Words formed from elastics

Phrases with elastics

Questions about elastics

What does elastics mean?
Elastics means a children's game in which players perform various jumping and trapping manoeuvres on long loops of elastic band stretched between two other players.
What part of speech is elastics?
Elastics is a noun.

Words near elastics in the dictionary

  1. elasticky
  2. elasticness
  3. elasticotactic
  4. elasticotaxis
  5. elasticoviscous
  6. elastics
  7. elastin
  8. elastinase
  9. elastinases
  10. elastinogenesis
  11. elastinolysis

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