children's games
Tag and hopscotch
Children's games are recreational activities played by young people, typically involving simple rules, physical movement, or imaginative play.
The term covers traditional outdoor games like tag, hide-and-seek, and hopscotch as well as indoor activities like board games and make-believe.
We played children's games until the streetlights came on.
The phrase sometimes dismisses something as trivially easy or unsophisticated: This isn't children's games—people's livelihoods are at stake.
- Simon saysGame requiring selective obedience
- capture the flagTeam infiltration contest
- cops and robbersChildren's game of chase
- tic-tac-toeThree-in-a-row grid game
- dodgeballElimination sport via throwing
charades · hopscotch · hide-and-seek · hide and go seek · kick the can · puppet shows · jump rope · hot potato · blind man's bluff · musical chairs · marbles · mancala · freeze tag · storytelling circles · tug-of-war · tag · duck duck goose · scavenger hunt
- games and pastimeschess, dice, backgammon, billiards, dominoes
- playplay, free play, played, toys, playfulness
- gamesboard game, card game, chess, video game, arcade game
- Asian pastimesmahjong, origami, karaoke, tai chi, go
- folklore of childhoodnursery rhymes, fairy tales, lullabies, bedtime stories, folktales
- folk dancessquare dances, jig, square dance, polka, line dance
children's gamesadult entertainment
Sexually explicit media
gambling · casino games · drinking games · strip poker · poker
children's gamesprofessional sports
Paid competitive athletic leagues
Olympic events · blood sports · gladiatorial combat · esports · World Cup