English Dictionary

Mexican wave

名詞

オーストラリア英語 アイルランド英語 ニュージーランド英語 イギリス英語

(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.

日本語の意味

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

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

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。

意味（1）

(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.

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.

Mexican waves （ plural ）