umbrella step

Noun

umbrella step (plural umbrella steps)

1. A type of move in the children's game Giant Steps or Mother May I that involves twirling on one foot while holding one finger on the top of the head.
   • As the various players are made to laugh and are eliminated in "Statue," it is noticed that one of the last to go is frozen in the position of umbrella step from the game of "Giant Step."1971, Eleanor Burke Leacock, The Culture of poverty: a critique, page 104
   • It was all determined; the steps were measured, and the way was fated. At each rank, the innumerable possibilities— two bunny steps and three baby steps, one scissors step, three giant steps and one umbrella step, a baby step and a scissor step...— these many possible roads were sorted, blocked...1988, Michael Jay Katz, Pattern biology and the complex architectures of life, page 159