The practice of walking barefoot over a substance such as hot stones or wood ashes, often as part of a traditional ceremony.
（传统节日庆典中的）蹈火，渡火
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Later, thousands of devotees took part in the fire-walking ceremony.
By contrast, the fire-walking ceremony draws heavily on cosmological notions even though the humanistic dimension is not absent.
It was she who brought my attention to the practice of fire-walking in Northern Greece.
It takes several hours to prepare a 10-foot by 30-foot fire-walking trough.
He promotes himself as the creator of the U.S. fire-walking movement, which he says dates to 1977.
It is the mix of insights from these diverse contexts, and perhaps for some these incompatible traditions, that makes the fire-walking rite a different and exciting phenomenon.
To show their enthusiasm for the corporate team, the employees were asked to engage in the ritual of fire-walking - literally to walk barefooted across a bed of white-hot coals.
Early on Cliff told us why fire-walking works and I was relieved to hear that it was to do with physics and not faith.
A fire-walking festival held at Katagarama attracts pilgrims from all over the island, as do other sacred centers of Buddhism.
Derivatives
fire-walker
noun
The fire-walkers, confidant that they could walk a long bed of coals, were seen to all hop off in alarm, either when their supernatural powers ran out, or when the simple physics of the matter caught up with their delusions.
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The suggestion can be supported by reference to the fire-walkers ' own commentaries.
If the fire-walkers ' efforts mean that the forest has now gone back to its source, the earth, just like the bull's blood, obviously it shows an involvement in the notion of cyclic progression.
A professional fire-walker apparently told a bare naked lie when he said that he was providing ‘a safe and spiritual experience where you walk through your past to arrive at your future.’
When strong antipathy or a kind of trivialisation is being expressed it is invariably by members of the medical profession who seek to explain the empirical fact that the fire-walkers feel no pain, and their feet show no blisters.
Definition of fire-walking in US English:
fire-walking
nounˈfī(ə)rˌwôkiNG
The practice of walking barefoot over something such as hot stones or wood ashes, often as part of a traditional ceremony.
（传统节日庆典中的）蹈火，渡火
Example sentencesExamples
Early on Cliff told us why fire-walking works and I was relieved to hear that it was to do with physics and not faith.
It was she who brought my attention to the practice of fire-walking in Northern Greece.
A fire-walking festival held at Katagarama attracts pilgrims from all over the island, as do other sacred centers of Buddhism.
He promotes himself as the creator of the U.S. fire-walking movement, which he says dates to 1977.
By contrast, the fire-walking ceremony draws heavily on cosmological notions even though the humanistic dimension is not absent.
It takes several hours to prepare a 10-foot by 30-foot fire-walking trough.
It is the mix of insights from these diverse contexts, and perhaps for some these incompatible traditions, that makes the fire-walking rite a different and exciting phenomenon.
To show their enthusiasm for the corporate team, the employees were asked to engage in the ritual of fire-walking - literally to walk barefooted across a bed of white-hot coals.
Later, thousands of devotees took part in the fire-walking ceremony.