Planking and Extreme Planking

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Planking or the lying down game is an activity consisting of lying face down in an unusual or incongruous location. The hands must touch the sides of the body and having a photograph of the participant taken and posted on the internet is an integral part of the game. Players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to play. The term planking refers to mimicking a wooden plank.

Since 2011, many participants in planking have photographed the activity on unusual locations such as atop poles, roofs and vehicles, while some "plankers" engage in the activity by planking only their upper body and feet while leaving the back suspended.

Comedian Tom Green claims to have invented "planking" as early as 1994. Gary Clarkson and Christian Langdon claim to have invented planking in 2000, first becoming popular in North East England.

The lying down game spread to the rest of the world, where it has also been known as ("playing dead") (2003, South Korea), ("On one's belly", France 2004), "extreme lying down" (2008, Australasia), "facedowns" (2010, USA and Ireland), and "planking" (2011, Australia & New Zealand and worldwide).

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