cups and saucers

Porcelain drinking pair

Cups and saucers is a children's playground activity where one child sits cross-legged while another spins them around on the ground, the seated child resembling a cup rotating on its saucer.

Also called bumps or spin-me-round in some regions.

We played cups and saucers until we got dizzy.

Related

high tea · bone china · fine china · porcelain · café culture · earthenware · tea parties · Victorian era · ceramic · floral motifs · hot chocolate · coffee · espresso · latte · bowl · glassware · chai · herbal infusion

Opposites
formality of drinkware

cups and saucersmugs

Cylindrical drinking vessels

paper cups · styrofoam cups · thermoses · mason jars · to-go cups

drinkware configuration

cups and saucerstumblers

Stemless drinking glasses

glasses · beakers

Family

saucer, cups, saucers, cupful, cupfuls, cupped, cupping

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G