Word chains

This is a game we sometimes play on car journeys and such. You start with a random word and then come up with successive words (or acceptable phrases) which each have some association with the preceding word. The object is to make a chain of at least five words and, without repeating any other word, end up with the same word as you started with. It's a useful game because you can play it anyway you want - either to come up with the shortest chain, or to see how long you can keep it going. Here's what I think is a neat example of a short chain we came up with the other day whilst hanging around waiting for a dental appointment. Our starting word was "sun".
Sun
Newspaper
Fish and chips
Takeaway
Chinese
Olympics
Rings
Saturn
Solar system
Sun
The chinese-olympics link was challenged, but was allowed to stand as a current association rather than a permanent one. Strangely, no one challenged the newspaper - fish and chips link, although that is really dated!