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
   "The children played going to Jerusalem at the birthday party";
   - musical chairs

Type of: child's game

Encyclopedia: Going to Jerusalem