MediumWordplay
"You wear me on your wrist, you also do me at a film, and a sailor does me through the night. What am I?"
Answer
A Watch
Explanation
A watch is a wrist-worn timepiece. To watch a film means to observe it. And a watch is a sailor's shift of duty through the night. Three meanings of the same word.
This is a medium riddle in the Wordplay category — Riddles that play with language, puns, and double meanings.
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