While there have been plenty of newsworthy, powerful, and deeply moving photographs created this year— there's also been a handful of playful, humorous moments that the Reuters award-winning team of photographers have captured.
While some of these photos are bizarre for their lack of context, others are just simply bizarre.
Take a light-hearted look back at the year 2016, below.
Captions by Reuters and Sarah Jacobs.
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People watch a street performer in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
Three-year-old Oliver Quiros competes dressed as an astronaut riding a space shuttle in the Haunted Heats Halloween Surf Contest in Santa Monica, California.
A man plays flaming bag pipes as opponents of fracking protest outside the offices of Ineos in Scotland, Britain.
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