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pole dancing

2017年06月10日 | 英語の本を読む

Reader's Digest 4月号の記事 'A Day's Work' からの抜粋です。
After retiring, I took up substitute teaching. One day, I asked my fourth graders to guess my favorite sport. It happens to be pickleball, which might explain why they weren't having any luck. So I offered this hint: "It starts with the letter p." They threw out pool, poker, ping-pong--none of them correct. Then one boy insisted he had the answer: "Pole dancing.

Note 1: Pickleball is a racquet sport that combines elements of badminton, tennis, and table tennis. Two, three, or four players use solid paddles made of wood or composite materials to hit a perforated polymer ball, similar to a wiffle ball, over a net. (from Wikipedia)
Note 2: pole dancing: Erotic dancing which involves swinging around a fixed pole.: The bar is only allowed to host topless dancing, not naked dancing or pole dancing. (from Oxford English Dictionary)

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