First, there was planking. People taking pictures of themselves in a planked position and putting the photos on the Internet.
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Planking
Synonyms for "planking" (73 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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10 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- дъсчена облицовка noun (series of planks)
Dutch Low Saxon
1 entries- plaanken noun (practice of lying face down with arms to the sides)
Finnish
1 entries- lankutus noun (series of planks)
Italian
1 entries- tavolato noun (series of planks)
Norman
3 entries- bord dé baté noun (series of planks)
- bordage noun (series of planks)
- bordaille noun (series of planks)
Spanish
3 entries- entablado noun (series of planks)
- entarimado noun (series of planks)
- planking noun (practice of lying face down with arms to the sides)
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[…] but, like planking, horsemanning, Tebowing, Hadoukening, and other viral photography memes, as a genre of public performance, dance in public is greatly facilitated by the channels of distribution that social media offer, […]
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