Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

performing arts:
Refers to live entertainment such as 
theater, ballet, and concerts.
pickup games:
Informal games in which teams are 
formed in an impromptu fashion from the people that 
are available.
pool:
A game or games similar to billiards but played 
on a table with pockets in which the object is to sink or 
pocket more balls, or certain balls, before your opponent 
does.
pretty busy:
Very busy.
riding:
Reference to horseback riding.
RV (recreational vehicle):
A kind of motor vehicle in 
which people can live as they travel from place to place.
scrappy:
Rough, ragged, or of poor quality.
scuba dive (SCUBA–Self-Contained Underwater Breath-
ing Apparatus):
A kind of diving in which a person car-
ries his or her own air supply.
season tickets:
Tickets that a person purchases for a 
specifi c kind of event that allows him or her to attend 
every scheduled performance that takes place during a 
specifi ed period of time.
sign:
To use sign language.
soccerplex:
An arena where soccer is played.
span of time:
A period of time.
spelunking:
Th
e sport of exploring caves.
spiritual music:
Music with a religious theme.

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status:
Immigration status.
stopper:
A defensive player in soccer who occupies a 
midfi eld position outside of the sweeper.
sweeper:
A defensive player in soccer who occupies 
a position between the goalkeeper and the rest of the 
defensive line.