Handshake facts for kids
A handshake is when two people hold hands for a few seconds and move them up and down before letting go. It is often used like a greeting (like saying "hello" or "goodbye" when people meet) or to say that two people have agreed on something.
Some secret societies have secret handshakes to show they are part of the group.
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Images for kids
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Assyrian king Shalmaneser III (right) shakes the hand of Babylonian king Marduk-zakir-shumi I (left), 9th century BCE
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Handshake depicted on a Roman coin, with the name of the goddess Concordia (AD 97)
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Officers shaking hands
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Shaking with the right hand while delivering a certificate with the left
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Tennis players shaking hands after match
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Public image consultant Álvaro Gordoa demonstrates a handshaking technique at a presentation at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City
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Leaders welcome a boy into Scouting, March 2010, Mexico City, Mexico. Note the left-handed handshake.
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. President Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on 13 September 1993
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World Record 2008
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Funerary stele of Thrasea and Euandria. Marble, ca. 375–350 BC. Antikensammlung Berlin, Pergamon Museum, 738
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Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, shaking hands with Heracles 70–38 BC, Arsameia.
See also
In Spanish: Apretón de manos para niños
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