It's my understanding that a mosh pit is a brutal area of the dance floor where the object is to push, and mash, and toss bodies against each other, not necessarily with regard to the underlying beat of the music...but mebbe?

It would be interesting to understand how the word mosh came to be.

I don't think there has to be an actual pit in order to mosh. I imagine the pit is figurative.

But since I missed every single item on Sparteye's cool list, I may be completely wrong about my understanding of mosh pits.