Singing is the activity of making musical sounds with your voice.
...a people's carnival, with singing and dancing in the streets.
...the singing of a traditional hymn. [+ of]
She's having singing lessons.
Examples of 'singing' in a sentence
singing
Singing together was a natural outcome of that.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Singing helps the cyclist keep out the cold, and sets your pedals whirring to a rhythm.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Singing helps me, all the time.
The Sun (2012)
Singing can help to tackle snoring, according to British researchers.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
In other languages
singing
British English: singing /ˈsɪŋɪŋ/ NOUN
Singing is the activity of making musical sounds with your voice.
The dancing and singing ended at midnight.
American English: singing
Arabic: غِنَاء
Brazilian Portuguese: canto
Chinese: 唱歌
Croatian: pjevanje
Czech: zpěv
Danish: sang
Dutch: zingen
European Spanish: canto
Finnish: laulaminen
French: chant
German: Singen
Greek: τραγούδι πράξη
Italian: canto
Japanese: 歌うこと
Korean: 노래
Norwegian: sang
Polish: śpiew
European Portuguese: canto
Romanian: cântare
Russian: пение
Latin American Spanish: canto
Swedish: sång
Thai: การร้องเพลง
Turkish: şarkı söyleme
Ukrainian: спів
Vietnamese: việc ca hát
All related terms of 'singing'
sing
When you sing , you make musical sounds with your voice , usually producing words that fit a tune .
outsing
to sing better or louder than
singing game
a children's game in which the players perform certain actions to the words of a song
singing hinny
a type of currant cake popular in NE England which, when cooked on a griddle , makes a singing noise
singing voice
the musical quality of a voice when a person is singing
singing lesson
a period of instruction in how to sing
singing teacher
a teacher who gives instruction in how to sing
community singing
singing , esp of hymns , by a large gathering of people
singing telegram
a greetings service in which a person is employed to present greetings by singing to the person celebrating
close-harmony singing
a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
sing out
If someone sings out something, they say it in a loud, cheerful voice.
sing along
If you sing along with a piece of music, you sing it while you are listening to someone else perform it.
all-singing all-dancing
If you describe something new as all-singing, all-dancing , you mean that it is very modern and advanced , with a lot of additional features; used especially to show that you think a lot of these features are silly or unnecessary .
to be singing from the same hymn sheet
If people are said to be singing from the same hymn sheet, they are saying the same thing