An Aboriginal musical instrument consisting of one stick or boomerang beaten against another or a different object.
two teens beat out a rhythm with clap sticks
Example sentencesExamples
We hear the sound of Aboriginal clap sticks, chanting, and dancing.
Clap sticks, coolamons, and boomerangs are just some examples of artefacts entered in the two-day competition.
The band combined electric instruments with didgeridoo and clap sticks and flanked the musicians with dancers in striking body paint.
In his one-man play, he sits next to a real campfire and uses props from his home, such as his crocodile harpoon and clap sticks, to illustrate his life.
He sits in a back pew, hitting his clap sticks in time with the hymns.
The didgeridoo and the clap sticks, those were our music.
In these desert and semi-arid regions, music is performed with voice and the rhythm of clap sticks.
You're now feeling as if you want to sing a song, and you want to make a clap stick, a woomera, a spear, or anything.
They first perform a ritual, using song, dance, and clap sticks, not to call the dolphins, but to get into a state which they call the Dreamtime.
She had been attracted by the dancing and sounds of the accompanying clap sticks.