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

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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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