Qué (quién) es Mexican wave - definición

EXAMPLE OF METACHRONAL RHYTHM ACHIEVED IN A PACKED STADIUM

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Mexican wave

(Mexican waves)

If a crowd of people do a Mexican wave, each person in the crowd stands up and puts their arms in the air after the person to one side of them, creating a continuous wave-like motion through the crowd. (BRIT; in AM, use wave
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Mexican wave

¦ noun an effect resembling a moving wave produced by successive sections of a stadium crowd standing up, raising their arms, lowering them, and sitting down again.

Origin

so named because of the repeated practice of this at the 1986 soccer World Cup finals in Mexico City.

Wave (audience)

The wave (known as a Mexican wave in the English-speaking world outside North America, as well as a translation of Mexican wave in some languages, and elsewhere as a stadium wave) is an example of metachronal rhythm achieved in a packed stadium when successive groups of spectators briefly stand, yell, and raise their arms. Immediately upon stretching to full height, the spectator returns to the usual seated position.

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Wikipedia

Wave (audience)

The wave (known as a Mexican wave or stadium wave outside of North America) is an example of metachronal rhythm achieved in a packed stadium when successive groups of spectators briefly stand, yell, and raise their arms. Immediately upon stretching to full height, the spectator returns to the usual seated position.

The result is a wave of standing spectators that travels through the crowd, even though individual spectators never move away from their seats. In many large arenas the crowd is seated in a contiguous circuit all the way around the sport field, and so the wave is able to travel continuously around the arena; in discontiguous seating arrangements, the wave can instead reflect back and forth through the crowd. When the gap in seating is narrow, the wave can sometimes pass through it. Usually only one wave crest will be present at any given time in an arena, although simultaneous, counter-rotating waves have been produced.

The wave appeared in US sports events in the late 1970s to early 1980s, and began to be adopted internationally after broadcast coverage of the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, leading to the act being known as a "Mexican wave" in some countries.

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Ejemplos de pronunciación para Mexican wave

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Ejemplos de uso de Mexican wave

1. More polls» The noise is an ear–splitting mix of cheering, singing, foot–stamping and screaming as Mexican wave upon Mexican wave races through the capacity crowd at Newcastle‘s Metroradio Arena.

2. The first Mexican wave rolled around the stadium just after tea.

3. Well, it was only a Mexican wave, not the cultural revolution.

4. The ten–storey Mexican wave 2. ‘Old Europe‘ must reform or crumble, Blair warns leaders 3.

5. Benedict‘s arrival at Cologne airport was greeted by the faithful with a Mexican wave – a trademark of his predecessor‘s landings.