0 an activity in which children dress up as magical or frightening creatures or as characters from a story on Halloween (= 31 October ), and visit people's homes to demand sweets --
Later, they are seen trick-or-treating.
In communities without electricity, where tree limbs and wires were down, trick-or-treating was delayed until days when it was expected to be back and repairs had made the streets safer.
The family had gone to a nearby town to go trick-or-treating, and there was only one adult in the house at the time of the accident.
After the hayride, the children are invited to walk around the campus supervised by parents or students and go trick-or-treating at each of the residence halls.
They head out trick-or-treating amongst other children in the neighborhood.
The children must try to escape the fort before trick-or-treating commences at night.
Stine also says that he incorporated a duck costume his parents got him for trick-or-treating in the book.
The practice of giving and eating soul cakes is often seen as the origin of modern trick-or-treating.
