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relievio

relievio is the alternative form of ringolevio.

Meaning of ringolevio

Noun

ringolevio (uncountable)

  1. (US, playground games) A children's game, a variation of tag, where each side has a designated "jail" to hold captured players from the other team.
    • There was stickball, there was handball, and there was ringolevio. Carney had loved the game. It was like tag, but bigger and more monstrous. One team hunted and the other was pursued. “Jail” was a front stoop, or the trunk of a car owned by somebody who wouldn’t beat you for touching their ride....2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 56

Questions about relievio

What is relievio the alternative form of?
Relievio is the alternative form of ringolevio.

Words near relievio in the dictionary

  1. relieving officers
  2. relieving tackle
  3. relieving tackles
  4. relievingly
  5. relievings
  6. relievio
  7. relievo
  8. relievos
  9. Reliez Valley
  10. relife
  11. relifed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: relievio (page history and authors); ringolevio (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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