Answer:
I am an activity involving pins flying in the air.
When I am alive, people sing. When I am dead, people clap hands. What am I?
What has words but never speaks?
You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I?
What runs around the whole yard without moving?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.