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{{Culture of Scotland}}
'''Highland games''' ({{lang-gd|geamannan Gàidhealach}}) are events held in spring and summer in [[Scotland]] and other countries with a large [[Scottish diaspora]], as a way of celebrating Scottish and [[Celt]]ic culture, especially that of the [[Scottish Highlands]]. Certain aspects of the games are so well known as to have become emblematic of Scotland, such as the [[bagpipes]], the [[kilt]], and the heavy events, especially the [[caber toss]] and [[Keg-tossing#Strongman competitions|weight over bar]]. While centred on competitions in piping and drumming, dancing, and Scottish heavy athletics, the games also include entertainment and exhibits related to other aspects of Scottish and [[Gaels|Gaelic]] cultures.
The [[Cowal Highland Gathering]], better known as the Cowal Games, is held in [[Dunoon]], [[Scotland]], every August. It is the largest Highland games in
The games are claimed to have influenced [[Baron Pierre de Coubertin]] when he was planning the [[1896 Summer Olympics#Reviving the Games|revival of the Olympic Games]]. De Coubertin saw a display of Highland games at the [[Paris Exhibition of 1889]].<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7107301.ece |title = Highland games were the model for modern Olympics |date = 25 April 2010 |work = The Times |access-date = 3 May 2010 |location = London, England |first = Marc |last = Horne }}</ref>{{efn|The website of the International Wrestling Association reports rather more expansively on the role of the 1889 Paris event and its effect on the development of the Olympics, considering it to have had a "huge impact" on world sport. An article published in 2004 in the ''Christian Science Monitor'' points to two other events, including that of Much Wenlock, a small English village in Shropshire.}}
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[[File:Pipeband circle.JPG|thumb|Highland Pipeband Competition Circle (Prince Charles Pipe Band 2008)]]
For many Highland games festival attendees, the most memorable of all the events at the games is the massing of the pipe bands. Normally held in conjunction with the opening and closing ceremonies of the games, as many as 20 or more pipe bands will march and play together. The result is a thunderous rendition of ''[[Scotland the Brave]]'' or ''[[Amazing Grace]]'', and other crowd-pleasing
The music of the [[great Highland bagpipe]] has come to symbolize music at the games and of [[Scotland]] itself. In addition to the massed bands (when all the attending pipe bands play together), nearly all Highland games gatherings feature a wide range of piping and drumming competition, including solo piping and drumming, small group ensembles and full the pipe bands.
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Various food vendors will also offer assorted types of traditional Scottish refreshment and sustenance.
▲==In literature and popular culture==
The Highland games phenomenon is satirised by [[Neil Munro (writer)|Neil Munro]] in his Erchie MacPherson story, "Duffy's Day Off", first published in the ''[[Glasgow Evening News]]'' on 22 August 1904.<ref>Munro, Neil, "Duffy's Day Off", in Osborne, Brian D. & Armstrong, Ronald (eds.) (2002), ''Erchie, My Droll Friend'', [[Birlinn Limited]], Edinburgh, pp. 258 - 261, {{isbn|978-1-84158202-3}}</ref>
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|[[Alva, Clackmannanshire|Alva]], Clackmannanshire
|Alva Highland Games
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|[[Blair Atholl]], Perthshire
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|[[Brodick]], Isle of Arran
|Brodick Highland Games
|First held in 1886.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.whatsonglasgow.co.uk/event/085172-brodick-highland-games/ | title=Brodick Highland Games, Brodick }}</ref>
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|[[Burntisland]], Fife
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|[[Daylesford, Victoria]]
|[http://daylesfordhighland.com/ Highland Gathering]
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|[[Maclean, New South Wales|Maclean, NSW]]
|[https://www.macleanhighlandgathering.com.au/ Maclean Highland Gathering]
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|[[Montreal, Quebec]]
|[[Montreal Highland Games]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://montrealhighlandgames.qc.ca|title=Montreal Highland Games|work=montrealhighlandgames.qc.ca|access-date=19 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140516194722/http://montrealhighlandgames.qc.ca/|archive-date=16 May 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|Fehraltdorf, Zurich
|Highland-Games Fehraltdorf<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highland-games.ch/ |title=Highland-Games |access-date=20 March 2014}}</ref>
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|Ingenbohl, Schwyz
|Highland Games Innerschweiz<ref>{{cite web |last=Benz |first=Marco |date=1 June 2024 |title=Highland Games Innerschweiz |url=http://www.hgis.ch/ |access-date=1 June 2024 |website=Highland Games Innerschweiz}}</ref>
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* [[World Highland Games Championships]]
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'''Informational notes'''
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'''Citations'''
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* {{cite thesis |last=Armstrong |first=Fiona Kathryne |type=PhD |title=Highlandism: Its value to Scotland and how a queen and two aristocratic women promoted the phenomenon in the Victorian age |date=31 August 2017 |publisher=University of Strathclyde |doi=10.48730/2m47-md74 |url= https://stax.strath.ac.uk/concern/theses/j098zb08p |access-date=28 May 2023 |ref=AFK}}
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