Our other swimmers are still undressing, but the two of us are jumping and clapping and calling them in.

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Classical-music audiences, for instance, tend to be mostly quiet and strikingly attentive, but also a bit inhibited, perhaps because many of the people who come to concerts are afraid of clapping at the wrong time.

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Discipline is strict, but classes are livened up with clapping and chanting--"Read, baby, read!"

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They are full of dancing and clapping and screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear.

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The party really kicked off when the cast of Queen musical We Will Rock You got the crowd singing and clapping along to its title track, followed by We Are The Champions.

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