musical chairs

== English == === Noun === musical chairs (uncountable) (children's 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. (figuratively) Any activity which results in repeated, pointless shuffling of people or objects. Coordinate terms: merry-go-round, treadmill ==== Synonyms ==== ==== Translations ====