conga

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Another visitor, Richard Smekal, posted about the conga line of climbers who packed onto the cables leading to the Half Dome summit.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Time will tell, but for now Californians — and most of America — are stuck doing the same old clock-face conga on Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026

In no time, there were conga lines and limbo contests, and by the wee hours, someone always ended up at the emergency room and at least one marriage was in peril.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Sometimes, as has been documented in a BBC series narrated by David Attenborough, they swap shells in a conga line, in which each crab puts on a shell discarded by a larger companion.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025

Harry thought there was a rather knowing look in her eye as she told him that, but she could not possibly know that his insides were suddenly dancing the conga.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling