playground games
Schoolyard activities outdoors
Playground games are activities children play during recess or free time outdoors—tag, hopscotch, jump rope, four square, and similar pursuits.
The term evokes schoolyard recreation requiring minimal equipment and flexible rules.
Adults sometimes reference playground games nostalgically or to describe informal, unstructured competition: Office politics felt like playground games.
- kickballSoccer meets baseball rules
- capture the flagTeam infiltration contest
- jump ropeCord swung underfoot
- double dutchTwin-rope skipping game
- Chinese jump ropeElastic loop foot game
tag · dodgeball · hide-and-seek · sack race · hopscotch · Simon says · four square · freeze tag · British bulldog · tetherball · charades · musical chairs · spud · cops and robbers · marbles · follow the leader · duck duck goose · jacks
- group activitiesvoting, protest, group dance, group project, game night
- childhoodchildhood, baby, child, kid, toys
- elementary schoolclassroom, student, first grade teacher, reading skills, teacher
- childhood traditionsbedtime stories, bedtime story, birthday parties, birthday party, birthdays
- recess gamestag, hopscotch, jump rope, hide and seek, duck duck goose
- roughhousingroughhouse, roughhousing, rough play, rough and tumble, horseplay
playground gamesvideo games
Interactive electronic entertainment
computer games · mobile games · console gaming · online gaming · screen time
playground gameshomework
Student assignments for outside class
schoolwork · chores · classroom instruction · child labor · desk work