rite of passage

The annual event sees selected town residents taking turns to run through the streets carrying burning wooden firkins in an "ancient rite of passage", Andrew Wade, president of the Tar Barrels Committee, said.

The “Year 3 Leap” is a rite of passage common to all-time basketball greats.

But the big reason for Japanese hesitancy around epidurals is cultural, according to moms, midwives and doctors, with a “natural” birth without pain relief viewed by some as an essential rite of passage in motherhood.

To run up the levee and gaze upon that view of downtown was something of a rite of passage for kids in the neighborhood.

Leaving home to go to university was once considered a rite of passage.