To play "air guitar" you move to the music as if you are playing an imaginary guitar, maybe like a famous rock musician.

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Although there was no physical reason for him not to be included in their imaginary play, they simply put him to one side and played with the other three.

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" She also wrote the 2002 play, "Imaginary Friends.

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Latifah purposely over-enunciated her lines, and when a pair of rehearsal actors claimed an Oscar onstage and gave an acceptance speech, Zeta-Jones started to play them off with an imaginary violin.

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