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Acting contest? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

charades

(Other definitions for charades that I've seen before include "Party guessing game" , "Miming games" , "Games like this" , "Miming parlour game" , "Guessing game where words are acted out" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.
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