Grasped one joining conga dancing contest (3-3-5,4)
I believe the answer is:
egg-and-spoon race
'contest' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'grasped one joining conga dancing' is the wordplay.
'joining' says to put letters next to each other.
'dancing' indicates an anagram.
'grasped' put after 'one' is 'onegrasped'.
'onegrasped'+'conga'='onegraspedconga'
'onegraspedconga' anagrammed gives 'EGG-AND-SPOON-RACE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for egg-and-spoon race that I've seen is " Handicapped running contest".)