What, exactly is a mosh pit?

Answer 1

Some say it is better then three months of anti-depressants. Much cheaper too.

Answer 2

Moshing is a type of dance characterized by jumping around and pushing others to music, particularly loud punk rock, hardcore, alternative rock or heavy metal music.

Moshing is typically done in a mosh pit or circle pit. Originally moshing was done in front of the stage at a concert, but since then, moshing has appeared more frequently throughout entire dance floors. Moshing etiquette has often involved helping up those who fall down, and holding up lost articles of clothing (usually shoes and hats) to be claimed by their owners.

Moshing has been gaining popularity in the hip hop, Breakcore, Eurodance, and Rave scenes.

Answer 3

A mosh pit is were people Mosh the real question is:

What, exactly is Moshing

Originally called slam dancing, the term mosh may come from the term mash. In the early 1980s, the dance was frequently spelled mash, but pronounced mosh, as in the 1982 song "Total Mash" by the Washington D.C.-based hardcore group Scream, on their Still Screaming album. Later, the term began to appear in fanzines of the time with its current spelling.

The invention of the term mosh has sometimes been credited to Vinnie Stigma of the hardcore band Agnostic Front, as an acronym of March Of Skin Heads.[citation needed] However, most authorities cite either Darryl Jennifer or H.R. of Bad Brains as the term's originator, from their Jamaican-accented pronunciation of the word mash, in the songs "Mash down Babylon" and "Mash It Up".

Many early punk scenes referred to this type of dance as thrashing, and the term moshing gradually gained significance during the crossover thrash days. This fusion was created by bands like D.R.I.. Slam dancing is often thought to have originated in Southern California during the west coast second generation punk movement, but British punk rockers of the 1970s were fond of slam dancing by doing the pogo (a simple dance involving jumping up and down and slamming into other people). The American variation began as bands like Black Flag and The Circle Jerks started playing hardcore punk. Fans from the beach cities began attending took slam dancing to the mobile skanking form, which was called the HB Strut

Answer 4

A "Mosh Pit" was a late 80s/early 90s punk race music trend, where during a punk concert, audiences on the floor (mainly violent "skinhead" punkers) would go into a drug induced frenzy and run/smash into or "mosh" each other. Moshing almost always ended up evolving into bloody fights, broken up by riot police.

Answer 5

a cirlc of people who are drunk and are fighting and a hole bunch of other things it is awsome..