egg rolling

noun

a contest or race in which eggs are rolled over a lawn, using a spoon or paddle, most commonly held as a children's entertainment during the Easter season.

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Its beautifully kept slopes were ideal places for "egg-rolling," and then there was the great fountain in the middle of the lawn!
The Quiver 3/1900 | Anonymous
Mrs. Harding hadn't said beyond the custom of Easter egg-rolling.
Turns about Town | Robert Cortes Holliday
It was very cunning to see the delight various little children took in it at the egg-rolling on Easter Monday.
Letters to His Children | Theodore Roosevelt
It was that of an egg rolling, as it were, spontaneously over the ground?
The Castaways | Captain Mayne Reid

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