pantomime

IPA: pˈæntʌmaɪm

(now rare) A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime.
(historical) The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work.
(UK) A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, call and response, and fairy-tale plots.
Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime.

Examples of "pantomime" in Sentences

While on the same page, he looked up the definition of pantomime.
Their pantomime is ruthless and restive, always craving more but instantly jaded.
"My folks!" he explained to her in pantomime, the suspicion of a complacent twinkle in his eye.
On my word, what you call the pantomime of beggars is only the whole huge bustle of the earth ....
A scholarly edition of the Obi pantomime is forthcoming from Romantic Circles, edited by Jeffrey N. Cox.
They tried also to comfort her by saying in pantomime that some day her godmother might send them to bear her home again, and lift the enchantment that bound her.
Mirabeau himself was indignant with what he called a pantomime; for he said that Ministers had no right to screen their own responsibility behind the inviolate throne.