“the ring”

The following 3 entries include the term the ring.

kiss-in-the-ring

noun

: drop the handkerchief in which the pursuing player may kiss the player he catches

peg in the ring

: a game of spinning a peg top within the bounds of a marked-out circle

throw/toss one's hat in/into the ring

idiom

: to announce that one is going to try to win a contest (such as an election)


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