Few things are more quintessentially French than a mime. To get in the spirit before they head to Paris, we asked a few Team USA Olympians to do their best to guess what this one was acting out.

When we watch a mime seemingly pull rope, climb steps, or try to escape that infernal box, we don’t struggle to recognize the implied objects—our minds automatically “see” them, a new study concludes.

Let the countdown to the Games begin! The Paris Olympics is just 100 days away, with competitions scheduled to begin on July 24 and the festivities slated to officially commence with the Opening ...

While the serious and well-respected “miming,” or acting through silent body emotion, originated in Ancient Greece, the typical white-faced mime comes from the 19th-century Paris silent-figure ...