Sentence examples for play bout from inspiring English sources

On the same observation day, we calculated aggression frequencies (bouts/hour) before and after the occurrence of the first play bout.

Female pair #2 exhibited an inverse relationship between pinning and pouncing, indicating an incomplete progression of the play bout.

Together, the combination of reduced attack/pouncing and increased evasion, a tactic that terminates a play bout as opposed to pinning, which facilitates play, demonstrates a decreased interest in play in animals with medial prefrontal cortex lesions.

Females in the reproductive queue apparently keep track of each other's weight during rough-and-tumble play bouts.

However, an exception to this is the strong motivation for social play among adolescent (PD 30 40) rats, where reward strength is positively associated with the degree to which individuals engage in rough-and-tumble play bouts (Calcagnetti & Schechter 1992; Deak & Panksepp 2006; Thor & Holloway 1983).

This study compared the movement patterns of forty-six college students, playing bouts of swimming exergame, while categorized based on their playing performance, gender, and prior experience of real swimming and exergames.

The Rossettis liked to play at bouts-rimés, giving one another rhyme endings to be used in a sonnet.

But from work to play to bouts with insomnia there is plenty of evidence that there is an entire subculture that keeps New Jersey percolating while most of its residents are either tucked in or passed out.

Lemon's patronizing sermon is definitely something that both the LGBT community and the African-American community should keep in mind instead of being tricked into playing another bout of "oppression Olympics".

In 2010, the team also played in bouts in Wollongong, Sydney and Melbourne.

The latest punt returner, CRAIG YEAST, will also be back on kickoffs with LAVERANUES COLES, who has been slowed by a knee injury.... Kicker JOHN HALL will play after a bout with back spasms in midweek.