PANTOMIME

[informal] panto (plural pantos) [noun] - (in Britain) an amusing musical play based on traditional children's stories, performed esp. at ChristmasPantomime is also used to mean mime (= showing meaning with movement rather than speech).It's an evening of music, drama and pantomime. [U]She did a pantomime of putting a key in the lock and finally the guy understood that she wanted her room key. [C](UK) A pantomime horse is two people pretending humorously to be a horse by dressing in special clothes and standing one behind the other so that the front person appears as the horse's front half and the person behind forms the back part.