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Noun: going to Jerusalem
  1. 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
    - musical chairs

Type of: child's game

Encyclopedia: Going to Jerusalem