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Today's Word "planking"

activity of lying face down in an incongruous location on

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planking \PLANG-king\ (verb) -1 : The activity of lying face down, arms to the side, in an unusual or incongruous location. Both hands must touch the sides of the body and having a photograph of the participant taken and posted on the Internet is an integral part of the game.

"Nell wasn't certain if the person lying face down was simply planking or had actually fallen down and hurt themselves."

 

Name given by Australian practitioners to the “lying-down game,” which originated in North East England in 1997 and took more than a decade to gather momentum.


 

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