human chain
Noun
Meaning
A bucket brigade.
(politics) A form of demonstration in which people link their arms as a show of political solidarity.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other's hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing.
It is unfortunate that some protesters chose to obstruct the police by linking arms and forming a human chain to prevent the police from gaining access to the tents. This is not non-violent civil disobedience.
Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.
Writer Colm Tóibín described Human Chain as "his best single volume for many years, and one that contains some of the best poems he has written..
The selection includes poems and writings from Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, the translation of Beowulf, Electric Light, District and Circle, and Human Chain (fall 2014).