Peeramid

Peeramid: noun. Part of the gymnastic routine performed by the House of Lords at the Commonwealth games, in which the hereditary peers and life peers compete to stack themselves in the highest possible triangular formation. The activity was briefly abandoned in 1965, when it led to the untimely demise of Baroness Heathford of Dumfries at the age of 95, when she was mistakenly and entirely accidentally positioned at the bottom of the peeramid by her ex-husband.