also: すいかわり
watermelon splitting game
A traditional Japanese summer game where a blindfolded person tries to split a watermelon with a stick, often guided by others' shouts.
We enjoyed a watermelon splitting game at the summer beach.
In the watermelon splitting game, you wear a blindfold and split the watermelon with a stick.
Most common spelling, using katakana for スイカ and kanji for 割り.
Kanji spelling; less common but still seen.
Compound of スイカ (watermelon) and 割り (splitting), from 割る (to split).