Last Updated ：2025/11/22

Mexican wave

Noun

Australia Ireland New-Zealand UK

(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A phenomenon that primarily occurs at sports events, where the members of the crowd stand up and/or raise their hands in turn, creating the illusion of a wave passing through the crowd.

Japanese Meaning

スポーツイベントなどで、観客が順番に立ち上がり、手を挙げることで、まるで波が通過していくかのように見える現象

What is this buttons?

During the final minutes of the match, the crowd started a Mexican wave that circled the stadium twice.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

試合の最終盤、観客がスタジアムを二周するウェーブを始めた。

Details

Sense（1）

This is an important idea and can best be illustrated by analogy with a Mexican wave. Although the Mexican wave seems to involve the coherent motion of a large number of people, it is clear to those who have been involved, that the “trigger” for an individual to react is entirely spatially and temporally local, i.e. the individual reacts at the appropriate time and space point simply by waiting until his or her neighbours react.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation