Cakewalk (or cake-walk) is a game played at carnivals, funfairs, and fundraising events.
[1] Tickets are sold to participants, and a path of numbered squares is laid out on a rug, with one square per ticket sold.
The participants walk around the path in time to music, which plays for a duration and then stops.
During the 1930s, the English poet John Betjeman described St Giles' Fair in Oxford as follows: It is about the biggest fair in England.
The whole of St Giles' … is thick with freak shows, roundabouts, cake-walks, the whip, and the witching waves.