hot lava

Volcano's liquid interior

Hot lava is a children's game where players imagine the floor is molten lava and must navigate by jumping between furniture, cushions, or other elevated surfaces: Don't touch the carpet—it's hot lava!

Also called the floor is lava.

The phrase appears in adult contexts to describe any playfully exaggerated avoidance.

Related

molten rock · sweltering · scalding · ash cloud · caldera · heat · cinder cone · fiery · fire and brimstone · lahar · volcanic hazards · ring of fire · volcano boarding · boiling · pyroclastic flow · viscosity · solidification · volcanic eruption

Categories
Opposites
temperature state

hot lavaice

Water's solid form

permafrost · glacier · cold water · snow · ice sheet

geological phase

hot lavaigneous rock

Crystallized molten material

volcanic rock · obsidian · pumice · lava rock

elemental danger

hot lavafreezing cold

Extremely low temperature

glacial ice · arctic cold · polar ice cap · frostbite · frozen tundra

Family

hot, lava, hotter, hottest, hotly, hotness, lavas

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G