User blog comment:LondonDauntlessCorvair963/The TRUE Origins of Halloween (Not to offend religious peeps)/@comment-5644737-20131101004544/@comment-5772846-20131102154108

Giving out candy and dressing up can fall under the umbrella of trick-or-treating, because they're core elements of it... everyone dresses up to trick-or-treat, and likewise, trick-or-treating wouldn't exist without people giving out candy. So... yeah.

As for carving pumpkins and decorating, that is a fair point. However, having friends over, doing corn mazes, crafts, or picking pumpkins may be associated with Halloween, but they are also done at any time during the fall, or in the case of friends and crafts, any time during the year. They aren't strictly Halloween activities, like decorating, carving pumpkins, or trick-or-treating are.