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ring-around-the-rosy

ring-around-the-rosy is the alternative form of Ring a Ring o' Roses.

Meaning of Ring a Ring o' Roses

Proper noun

Ring a Ring o' Roses

  1. A traditional children's game involving dancing in a ring around a person in the middle.

Questions about ring-around-the-rosy

What is ring-around-the-rosy the alternative form of?
Ring-around-the-rosy is the alternative form of Ring a Ring o' Roses.

Words near ring-around-the-rosy in the dictionary

  1. ring wrench
  2. ring wrenches
  3. ring-a-ding
  4. ring-a-ding-ding
  5. ring-a-levio
  6. ring-around-the-rosy
  7. ring-bark
  8. ring-barked
  9. ring-barking
  10. ring-barks
  11. ring-bill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ring-around-the-rosy (page history and authors); Ring a Ring o' Roses (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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