going to jerusalem

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   a child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated

   Synonymsmusical chairs

   Broaderchild's game

Questions about going to jerusalem

What does going to jerusalem mean?

going to jerusalem means "a child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated".

What is another word for going to jerusalem?

Close synonyms include musical chairs. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.