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Ring around the Rosie

Ring around the Rosie 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 Rosie

What is Ring around the Rosie the alternative form of?
Ring around the Rosie is the alternative form of Ring a Ring o' Roses.

Words near Ring around the Rosie in the dictionary

  1. ring
  2. ring a bell
  3. Ring a Ring o' Roses
  4. Ring a Ring o' Rosie
  5. ring around
  6. Ring around the Rosie
  7. Ring around the Rosy
  8. ring back
  9. ring bark
  10. ring barked
  11. ring barking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ring around the Rosie (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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