musical chairs

English

Noun

musical chairs (uncountable)

1. (games) A children's game in which players circle a group of chairs. There is one chair fewer than the number of players. When someone who is not watching stops playing music, everybody sits down, and the player left without a chair is eliminated.
2. (figuratively) Any activity which results in repeated, pointless shuffling of people or objects.

Translations

game

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音樂椅／音乐椅 (yīnyuèyǐ)

• Dutch: stoelendans (nl) m
• Finnish: tuolileikki (fi)
• French: chaises musicales (fr) f pl
• German: Reise nach Jerusalem f
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• Italian: gioco della sedia m
• Portuguese: dança das cadeiras f
• Russian: музыка́льные сту́лья m or pl (muzykálʹnyje stúlʹja)
• Spanish: juego de las sillas m, sillita musical, sillas musicales, (Argentina) baile de las sillas
• Swedish: hela havet stormar (sv)
• Thai: เก้าอี้ดนตรี (gâo-îi-don-dtrii)

figuratively: activity of shuffling people

• Dutch: stoelendans (nl) m
• Finnish: tuolileikki (fi)
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• Swedish: hela havet stormar (sv)