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Definitions

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  • noun A non-competition sport in which a small 'sack', or 'hack' full of rice or sand is kept from falling to the ground by using anything except for the arms.

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Examples

  • And you all know me well enough by now to know I'm not some tree-hugging, hackysack-kicking vegan.

    Top Chef All-Stars Ep. 10: Iron chef Dale Carol Blymire 2011

  • So now I'm tossing my innocent manuscript into the wolverine pit with my hungrily slavering initial readers, who will gut it and play hackysack with its kidneys for a little while; then I'll send it off to The Agent, and resume prodding at The Brightest Fell, aka, "Toby Daye, book five," aka, "Seanan, honey, can we please wait for Rosemary and Rue to come out before you finish the second set of three?"

    seanan_mcguire: Eclipsing the obvious with the oblivious, daily. seanan_mcguire 2009

  • In its inaugural year, I saw one outraged resident emerge after a player whacked his hackysack into his BMW.

    British Discover Urban Golf | Impact Lab 2006

  • Or possibly on a beach, playing hackysack or tossing a Frisbee to a golden retriever with a blue bandana tied rakishly around his neck while your friends sing “Sunshine On My Shoulders” from atop their surfboards.

    Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Time is not on our side 2006

  • Or possibly on a beach, playing hackysack or tossing a Frisbee to a golden retriever with a blue bandana tied rakishly around his neck while your friends sing “Sunshine On My Shoulders” from atop their surfboards.

    Author! Author! » 2006 » January 2006

  • I just came from Consol Energy Center, where the Wild had a meeting, a pickup soccer hackysack game and a draft for this afternoon's outing for a little Ten Pins.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • I just came from Consol Energy Center, where the Wild had a meeting, a pickup soccer hackysack game and a draft for this afternoon's outing for a little Ten Pins.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • It's almost automatic to think of a proton as looking like a billard ball, but a proton is made of 3 quarks, so it's more like a hackysack.

    Discover Blogs 2010

  • I like how you posted this before hackysack and now you're being downvoted for it.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

  • Once the actual Oscars began, M and E loved Charlie Chaplin playing hackysack with Shrek, though, alas, they found Chris Rock’s monologue boring S and I were in stitches.

    Oscars With Kids Becca 2005

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