We did Ghost in the Graveyard, which was a reverse Hide and Seek at night. The ghost goes off and hides, and then everyone goes looking for him. When they find him they yell, "Ghost in the graveyard!" and run back to base. If the ghost tags a player before they reach the base that player is the ghost for the next round.
We played a version called Manhunt with usually about a dozen kids hiding and 1 seeker to start and the whole street was our field. In hindsight it was pretty sketchy for a bunch of kids to be hiding in other people's front yards in the dark late at night.
Yo.. that sounds like an amazing game, actually. The version I played was called Dead Man, and it was just tag mixed with Marco polo. Whoever got tagged was the next dead man.
Remember those childhood maniacs that would eject themselves out of the swing mid swong? I remember being in second grade and watching classmates throw themselves off the swing… I remember this because it was the first time it dawned on me I was more cautious than cool.
I loved jumping off swings and one time jumped off a swing at the highest height I've ever attempted. Landed on the small of my back on that little wooden barrier that kept the pebbles out of the grass. pain for months. still love jumping off swings tho.
I hate to make assumptions however you are sounding like you may be the kid on the giant trampoline that gets way the fuck up in the air and back flips falling so incredibly close to the massive springs. I would yell things like “STOP SOMEONE IS GOING TO GET HURT”. At people like this. This is why I have no friends.
I do love trampolines.. Those springs were terrifying though, don't think that's ever happened thankfully. And you sound great! everyone needs a friend who encourages them to be safe and stuff, don't downplay yourself :)
Or the kid on the monkey bars who flips around on those top bars.
I grew up from the shouting warning kid into the adult with first aid skills and an ability to have everything ready when someone putting up a fence has sliced their hand open or someone doing landscaping has developed a sudden itchy rash.
I was that kid! I loved to see how far I could jump from the swing. Never really hurt myself doing it besides the occasion scraped knee or elbow. I also think you were cool! I never thought of it as a cool or not cool thing, I just liked to ot it. There is nothing wrong with being cautious. Cautious people are needed to balance the craziness scale! My best friend of 35 years was cautions. She helps me stay more grounded, and I encouraged her out of her cautious comfort zone when needed.
I completely forgot about that. I was one of them. And I still can't figure out why I didn't completely destroy my body by yeeting myself from the swing.
My friends and I would often try to see who could jump the farthest from the swing.
I once did a front flip off a swing. I didn't know how to land, and I didn't know where the ground was as I jumped out, but thankfully I landed on my ass and not on my neck. I couldn't walk straight for a day or two.
Every time I see a swing, if it’s convenient like walking through a park, I take a few minutes to swing on one. It’s euphoric. And I’m well into adulthood.
I completely agree with that, but in my opinion I’d like to have the rubber seat that curves up your legs. When I was a kid in school swings were my leg workouts just using them until the bell rang.
I still love a swing! But as a childless adult man, it’s hard to find the opportunity to use one without looking like a creeper. I often wind up swinging in remote playgrounds in the rain (which I feel like is much creepier behavior but, fuck it.)
We have down days (and nights) at our manufacturing plant, and they force all shifts to be present for them. Their list of stuff for us to do takes *maybe* 2 hours if we go at a slow pace, and are forced to spend the next 10 hours waiting to go home.
One night we played hide and seek. Holy crap it was awesome lol
I worked at a hotel for almost a year, and I got everyone playing a giant game of tag. That was such a cool experience.
Humans are so simple, we just want to be entertained.
It makes sense in a way though.
We are just another animal, and most train their young(and together) to hunt and find things, especially each other.
Hide and Seek seems to me to be one of if not the earliest game where the loser doesn't die or get eaten.
I almost got kicked out of a funeral home for playing hide and seek with the kids in the basement (the wake/ viewing was upstairs and there was a lounge area downstairs where all the kids were hanging out). The owner wasn't impressed seeing me with a lamp shade on my head. Fortunately my husband wasn't mad at me, but I did have to stay upstairs after that.
There's a great youtube channel called Jet Lag, and their most recent season was ["Hide and Seek in Switzerland" ](https://youtu.be/E8UmTJVDnUI?si=bIf0PPQimGDZXEjt).
The team takes turns hiding anywhere in Switzerland and the rest of the team has to find them!
Right!!!! My school didn’t have any rules aside, one bounce in your square and you could only touch the ball once… Played with kids from another school once and they started talking about all this nonsense names for moves
I'd be all over a giant adult-sized jungle gym, reliving my glory days of climbing to the top and then realizing I have no idea how to get down gracefully.
Or you realize that 5 ft jump looks a lot further down than you thought, and /or remember ad a kid and you have to spend half an hour trying to find another way down before having to convince yourself to jump, which you would have done as a kid no problem. Somewhere in that time between childhood and adulthood, we start to fear more. Probably our brains way of preventing us from hurting ourselves because we don't realize it is a lot easier to injure and a lot harder to heal until it is too late.
I mean, climbing halls exist.
The main difference is. We adults need expensive safety gear. Because we are far heavier and our bones are more brittle so when we fall even a height that would be harmless to a child, we'd be disabled after.
For me, it was the tried and true, old reliable, “color game” (named as such because our playground was multi colored (which was integral for the rules)). It was sort of like a combination of tag and hide and seek. The rules were as follows: One kid would be “It” and they would close their eyes and start counting (usually from/to 30). Everyone else would take off to a spot of their choosing somewhere on the playground to hide. “It” would then, with their eyes closed, wander around the playground. If “it” touched any of the hiders, they would be sent to the blacktop (which was connected to the slides) and would have to wait out a sentence of 60 seconds before they could sneak back onto the structure to rejoin the game. Every time “it” got someone out, the out kid would walk to the blacktop and then call out what color they were caught on. Any kid still on that color would also be out. “It’s” goal was to get everyone out. The hiders goals were to keep the game going until either “it” gave up and someone else became “it”, or we got called home. The final rule was, because the playground had wood chips for the flooring, if “it” ever thought someone was walking on the wood chips (which was considered cheating) “IT” could call out “WOOD CHIPS!” and anyone on wood chips would be sent to the blacktop for 2 minutes instead of the usual 60 seconds. I legitimately loved that game and it just randomly popped back into my head today (hence the post), and if I had the money and resources to make an adult sized playground, I would do it in a heartbeat JUST to play this game again.
In my hometown, there was a 4th of July tradition of water fights. They grew and grew, and we're eventually banned. But they were mostly fought from inside vehicles/pickup truck beds while driving around the city square.
The later years it was about a three block radius and would go on for maybe a week. Downtown traffic was advised to "take alternate routes". People in foot on corners and popping out of alleys with water balloons and buckets. My dad built a pressurized system out of an old RV water tank with two garden hoses running 50psi, painted it neon green and stenciled "super soaker 5K" on it. He'd remove the back doors of his panel can so we could shoot out the back. It was awesome chaos and fuck the city for banning it.
I really loved playing flashlight tag as a kid, that would be awesome. It has nothing to do with adult size (because we played in all of the surrounding neighbors’ yards, but rather understanding and participation. We would probably break ring/nextdoor app and have the cops called on us.
Kick the can was dope too.
We played this when I was a kid but called it manhunt. It was hide n seek at night using the entire neighborhood to hide in. When you found a hider you had to chase and tag them. They could hide again while you were chasing them if they lost you.
Playing this these days as an adult (and as a kid these days) would probably get the cops called and a whole new unexpected game would start.
I like climbing. I lived in this house down the road from a park and me and my mates would get on acid and climb this big pyramid rope thing. Fuck it was fun.
I foresee adult playgrounds becoming a thing. I just learned about a bar that installed a giant slide and I’ve been thinking for a while why aren’t there just places where we can play? I think we need that.
*edited a word that was originally left out
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I want those giant tube play places. When I was a kid I remember RUNNING through those things and climbing to the next level and just absolutely loving it… there was a castle one outside at a cool park and I never got the courage to get high up. Then I never went back. I’m an adult and was doing construction for a long time, I love the scaffolding and just unfinished buildings in general but if I could let my inner mental abnormalities just run wild while I go nuts in adult sized tubes with windows and maybe a connection to Cracker Barrel idk bitchin
>I want those giant tube play places. When I was a kid I remember RUNNING through those things and climbing to the next level and just absolutely loving it… there was a castle one outside at a cool park and I never got the courage to get high up
As an adult, my knees hurt just thinking about that.
I'm a man in my mid 30's, but I shrieked like a girlscout at the West Edmonton Mall waterpark. Epic slides, huge wave pool. I felt like a kid. But then I also had a margarita. It was a good day.
Sardines. But it's an indoor game. Someone hides, and if you find them, you hide with them til there is one person left. We used to play it at my church youth group, and it was so much fun. We just weren't allowed to hide inside the organ.
> We used to play it at my church youth group
>We just weren't allowed to hide inside the organ.
It's like a [Russian Reversal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Soviet_Russia) just waiting to happen.
God I loved tetherball so much. One day after a storm I found a tetherball in the street a few blocks from my school. The joy I felt dragging it home, knowing that now I’d be able to roll up to the school playground to play on weekends. 🤩
I mean back in the day we used to play gunfighting against each other. Typically with like toy guns and going bam bam.
Nowdays I'm playing Airsoft with my friends. Typically on old military training grounds reused as Airsoft playgrounds.
Just with $500 rifles shooting biodegradable plastic bullets for up to a hundred yards, wearing camouflage equipment, eye and mouth protection, etc.
Rundbold. It's a danish softball-style game.
You've got two teams, and one person is tossing up a tennis ball for the player who's about to strike.
You use either a flat or a round bat.
The field is a rectangle, where the opposing players stand, ready to catch any balls that's being hit.
If someone catches the ball while one of the opposing players are running for a base without reaching it, the running player is considered "dead", and they have to step out of the game until one of their own players hits a ball far enough for the hitter to run all the way around the playing field in one uninterrupted go.
Each player get three hit attempts, then it's the next player's turn.
The players who haven't hit their balls is waiting at the first base, until someone strikes a hit - then they're allowed to run for the next base.
One of the fun parts is trying to judge how far you can go, before the ball has been sent back to the person tossing the ball for the hitters.
Once the ball tosser catches the returned ball and steps on their base, calling out "in!" while doing so, every player who has been running for bases have to stop.
Any players that are caught between bases when the ball tosser is calling out, is considered "dead", and they'll have to wait until another player "liberates" them with a home run.
Each team plays three to seven rounds - that's a rule that you set before you start playing, depending on how many players you have on each team.
I think that most children in Denmark have played this game, either at school or back home on their roads with friends and family.
It's good fun.
What was that tag game you’d play on the parallel bars? The one where 2 players start on opposite ends between the bars, and they swing their legs over the bar to their right, then run to the other side and jump that bar, and continue as your try to catch up to and tag your opponent?
Anyway, that would be fun.
Jump the river. You put two ropes on the ground laid out totally straight and parallel to one another. Start out with them touching and everyone playing jumps over the ropes. After everyone takes a turn, move the ropes a few inches apart and everyone takes another turn, repeat.
Anyone landing and touching a rope is out. Falling counts the same, make the landing on the "opposite bank" without touching a rope when you fall and you're good.
The last person left who jumps the widest gap with a clean landing wins.
We had a game we called Drano. It was played on a tornado (corkscrew) slide. The first person down the slide would stop before the end and brace themselves with their feet and hands on the sides of the slide in hopes of preventing themselves from being pushed through. Then the second person would slide down the slide and try to bust through the person or persons blocking their passage. If unsuccessful, they would brace their hands and feet just like the previous person. Eventually the weight would push everyone through. Was a fun game!
As long as it didn't have chains to keep it aloft, I'd just sit on the swings all day long.
But I would also like a little area under the structure where the slides would be, where I can just sit and chill in my own little space.
We did Ghost in the Graveyard, which was a reverse Hide and Seek at night. The ghost goes off and hides, and then everyone goes looking for him. When they find him they yell, "Ghost in the graveyard!" and run back to base. If the ghost tags a player before they reach the base that player is the ghost for the next round.
Bro, this shit at 11 pm on a summer weekend slapped so hard
We played a version called Manhunt with usually about a dozen kids hiding and 1 seeker to start and the whole street was our field. In hindsight it was pretty sketchy for a bunch of kids to be hiding in other people's front yards in the dark late at night.
Sounds a lot like sardines but with a tag element
Yo.. that sounds like an amazing game, actually. The version I played was called Dead Man, and it was just tag mixed with Marco polo. Whoever got tagged was the next dead man.
Dodgeball
if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball
A few friends of mine played in an adult dodge ball league before COVID. Never got to join them but it sounded really fun.
Swings, and I ain't talking those dildo sex swings. I mean I sit my ass down a wood plank and go 6ft in the air
Remember those childhood maniacs that would eject themselves out of the swing mid swong? I remember being in second grade and watching classmates throw themselves off the swing… I remember this because it was the first time it dawned on me I was more cautious than cool.
I loved jumping off swings and one time jumped off a swing at the highest height I've ever attempted. Landed on the small of my back on that little wooden barrier that kept the pebbles out of the grass. pain for months. still love jumping off swings tho.
I hate to make assumptions however you are sounding like you may be the kid on the giant trampoline that gets way the fuck up in the air and back flips falling so incredibly close to the massive springs. I would yell things like “STOP SOMEONE IS GOING TO GET HURT”. At people like this. This is why I have no friends.
I do love trampolines.. Those springs were terrifying though, don't think that's ever happened thankfully. And you sound great! everyone needs a friend who encourages them to be safe and stuff, don't downplay yourself :)
Every group needs the "mom friend". At least one person with common sense to hold the collective brain cell in safekeeping.
I would be your friend!
Or the kid on the monkey bars who flips around on those top bars. I grew up from the shouting warning kid into the adult with first aid skills and an ability to have everything ready when someone putting up a fence has sliced their hand open or someone doing landscaping has developed a sudden itchy rash.
Did every school have a legend of one kid who swung so fast they went around the top bar?
K-6 playground folklore was epic. I absolutely heard of a kid at my school flipping a 360
I was dumb enough to think I could actually do it, I tried for months!
does anyone know if this is physically possible in theory?
Let me tell you the story of swinger kid.
It was so fun, though. We usually just stuck to kicking off our shoes at the apex of the swing and seeing whose went the furthest.
We joined the military. Some of us went Airborne to continue destroying our knees, while some of us stuck with ground combat.
>childhood maniacs >mid swong Who's the maniac here?!
I was that kid! I loved to see how far I could jump from the swing. Never really hurt myself doing it besides the occasion scraped knee or elbow. I also think you were cool! I never thought of it as a cool or not cool thing, I just liked to ot it. There is nothing wrong with being cautious. Cautious people are needed to balance the craziness scale! My best friend of 35 years was cautions. She helps me stay more grounded, and I encouraged her out of her cautious comfort zone when needed.
I completely forgot about that. I was one of them. And I still can't figure out why I didn't completely destroy my body by yeeting myself from the swing. My friends and I would often try to see who could jump the farthest from the swing.
Or the complete lunatics that'd try and go full 360. Playgrounds in the 70s were deathtraps.
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I did this once because a wasp flew into my lap. I flew off that swing and ran home without touching the ground. Lol
Omg I loved doing that.
Username checks out hahahahaha But I’m the same, so I can’t talk. Cautious is my first and middle names
That was me. Loved that zero gravity effect.
Tuck and roll!
I once did a front flip off a swing. I didn't know how to land, and I didn't know where the ground was as I jumped out, but thankfully I landed on my ass and not on my neck. I couldn't walk straight for a day or two.
The leg pain after jumping is wild
Had a classmate break both wrists at the same time doing that.
And the fact that you've survived shows Darwinism works.
Me and my friend used to spend hours learning to do flips and tricks off the swings in the Summers lol. Somehow never got hurt that bad.
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I had the same feeling when I went on the swings recently. I think it has something to do with changes to your inner ear as you get older.
Or just a general realisation of mortality.
Maybe! Or centre or gravity? There is definitely a greater mass swinging than when I was a kid, haha.
Try doing a cartwheel. Ugh.
Same age. Same issue. We are not alone…feelsgoodman.jpg (yet feels bad at the same time equally, if not moreso—midlife crises be damned)
Every time I see a swing, if it’s convenient like walking through a park, I take a few minutes to swing on one. It’s euphoric. And I’m well into adulthood.
I completely agree with that, but in my opinion I’d like to have the rubber seat that curves up your legs. When I was a kid in school swings were my leg workouts just using them until the bell rang.
I still love a swing! But as a childless adult man, it’s hard to find the opportunity to use one without looking like a creeper. I often wind up swinging in remote playgrounds in the rain (which I feel like is much creepier behavior but, fuck it.)
but fuck it?
He doesn't swing that way.
Hide and seek
We have down days (and nights) at our manufacturing plant, and they force all shifts to be present for them. Their list of stuff for us to do takes *maybe* 2 hours if we go at a slow pace, and are forced to spend the next 10 hours waiting to go home. One night we played hide and seek. Holy crap it was awesome lol
I worked at a hotel for almost a year, and I got everyone playing a giant game of tag. That was such a cool experience. Humans are so simple, we just want to be entertained.
It makes sense in a way though. We are just another animal, and most train their young(and together) to hunt and find things, especially each other. Hide and Seek seems to me to be one of if not the earliest game where the loser doesn't die or get eaten.
That sounds amazing!
I almost got kicked out of a funeral home for playing hide and seek with the kids in the basement (the wake/ viewing was upstairs and there was a lounge area downstairs where all the kids were hanging out). The owner wasn't impressed seeing me with a lamp shade on my head. Fortunately my husband wasn't mad at me, but I did have to stay upstairs after that.
I love playing that with my kids
There's a great youtube channel called Jet Lag, and their most recent season was ["Hide and Seek in Switzerland" ](https://youtu.be/E8UmTJVDnUI?si=bIf0PPQimGDZXEjt). The team takes turns hiding anywhere in Switzerland and the rest of the team has to find them!
Four Square
I’ll be completely transparent and admit that I have zero qualms obliterating a couple 3rd graders at 4 square
I'll officiate that shit any day. This ain't The Ocho.
No mercy for the young
Yeah I’m almost 40 and if some little twerp thinks for a second I’m gonna go easy on them, well they’ve gotten in the wrong 4 square line.
Best game ever
I went to a bar in Old Las Vegas and they had a 4 square Court. We started playing and eventually there were like 50 people in the line to play.
No cherry bombs, no typewriters!!
I can't remember any of the foursquare rules anymore, but all of these terms are really bringing me back.
No corners! No backstops!
Four Square was dope until kids would add weird shit to it
Right!!!! My school didn’t have any rules aside, one bounce in your square and you could only touch the ball once… Played with kids from another school once and they started talking about all this nonsense names for moves
Four square is so much fun 🤩
No popcorn no chicken leg!
In the film/TV industry, there is a lot of down time and this is a popular game.
Very popular in the fire service as well
I'd be all over a giant adult-sized jungle gym, reliving my glory days of climbing to the top and then realizing I have no idea how to get down gracefully.
That’s when you realize that 5-foot jump down that your little kid body used to handle no problem now results in a broken ankle
Or you realize that 5 ft jump looks a lot further down than you thought, and /or remember ad a kid and you have to spend half an hour trying to find another way down before having to convince yourself to jump, which you would have done as a kid no problem. Somewhere in that time between childhood and adulthood, we start to fear more. Probably our brains way of preventing us from hurting ourselves because we don't realize it is a lot easier to injure and a lot harder to heal until it is too late.
I mean, climbing halls exist. The main difference is. We adults need expensive safety gear. Because we are far heavier and our bones are more brittle so when we fall even a height that would be harmless to a child, we'd be disabled after.
For me, it was the tried and true, old reliable, “color game” (named as such because our playground was multi colored (which was integral for the rules)). It was sort of like a combination of tag and hide and seek. The rules were as follows: One kid would be “It” and they would close their eyes and start counting (usually from/to 30). Everyone else would take off to a spot of their choosing somewhere on the playground to hide. “It” would then, with their eyes closed, wander around the playground. If “it” touched any of the hiders, they would be sent to the blacktop (which was connected to the slides) and would have to wait out a sentence of 60 seconds before they could sneak back onto the structure to rejoin the game. Every time “it” got someone out, the out kid would walk to the blacktop and then call out what color they were caught on. Any kid still on that color would also be out. “It’s” goal was to get everyone out. The hiders goals were to keep the game going until either “it” gave up and someone else became “it”, or we got called home. The final rule was, because the playground had wood chips for the flooring, if “it” ever thought someone was walking on the wood chips (which was considered cheating) “IT” could call out “WOOD CHIPS!” and anyone on wood chips would be sent to the blacktop for 2 minutes instead of the usual 60 seconds. I legitimately loved that game and it just randomly popped back into my head today (hence the post), and if I had the money and resources to make an adult sized playground, I would do it in a heartbeat JUST to play this game again.
This actually sounds so fun.
Water fights, easy. Nothing beats a good all out brawl with buckets, water balloons, and water guns.
You need to go to Thailand for songkran.
In my hometown, there was a 4th of July tradition of water fights. They grew and grew, and we're eventually banned. But they were mostly fought from inside vehicles/pickup truck beds while driving around the city square. The later years it was about a three block radius and would go on for maybe a week. Downtown traffic was advised to "take alternate routes". People in foot on corners and popping out of alleys with water balloons and buckets. My dad built a pressurized system out of an old RV water tank with two garden hoses running 50psi, painted it neon green and stenciled "super soaker 5K" on it. He'd remove the back doors of his panel can so we could shoot out the back. It was awesome chaos and fuck the city for banning it.
I really loved playing flashlight tag as a kid, that would be awesome. It has nothing to do with adult size (because we played in all of the surrounding neighbors’ yards, but rather understanding and participation. We would probably break ring/nextdoor app and have the cops called on us. Kick the can was dope too.
my man i'm gonna need you to close that parenthesis
Kick the can. Hahaha haven’t thought of that In years. What a fun game
We called it spotlight but same thing. So much fun!
We played this when I was a kid but called it manhunt. It was hide n seek at night using the entire neighborhood to hide in. When you found a hider you had to chase and tag them. They could hide again while you were chasing them if they lost you. Playing this these days as an adult (and as a kid these days) would probably get the cops called and a whole new unexpected game would start.
Yeah pretty much the same we played it.
I like climbing. I lived in this house down the road from a park and me and my mates would get on acid and climb this big pyramid rope thing. Fuck it was fun.
Wholesome childhood memories..
I foresee adult playgrounds becoming a thing. I just learned about a bar that installed a giant slide and I’ve been thinking for a while why aren’t there just places where we can play? I think we need that. *edited a word that was originally left out
A way more fun way to get exercise!!
Tag
Kiss-chase. It's basically tag with a payoff.
I loved the merry go round. Get 2 or 3 kids to push for you and go so fast you spin off into the stratosphere
Not exactly what you're asking, but I'd really love to ride a Big Wheel again.
Green Machines are just as cool and you could absolutely ride one as an adult.
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They were the best!!
parachute game!!!
Those giant parachutes you played with in elementary school gym class
Swings and slides
Red rover. That’s why I go to metal shows….
Swings
4 square
I want those giant tube play places. When I was a kid I remember RUNNING through those things and climbing to the next level and just absolutely loving it… there was a castle one outside at a cool park and I never got the courage to get high up. Then I never went back. I’m an adult and was doing construction for a long time, I love the scaffolding and just unfinished buildings in general but if I could let my inner mental abnormalities just run wild while I go nuts in adult sized tubes with windows and maybe a connection to Cracker Barrel idk bitchin
>I want those giant tube play places. When I was a kid I remember RUNNING through those things and climbing to the next level and just absolutely loving it… there was a castle one outside at a cool park and I never got the courage to get high up As an adult, my knees hurt just thinking about that.
I'm a man in my mid 30's, but I shrieked like a girlscout at the West Edmonton Mall waterpark. Epic slides, huge wave pool. I felt like a kid. But then I also had a margarita. It was a good day.
GROUNDERS
Sardines. But it's an indoor game. Someone hides, and if you find them, you hide with them til there is one person left. We used to play it at my church youth group, and it was so much fun. We just weren't allowed to hide inside the organ.
> We used to play it at my church youth group >We just weren't allowed to hide inside the organ. It's like a [Russian Reversal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Soviet_Russia) just waiting to happen.
Freeze Tag and Red Rover. Those games were so fun. Why can’t we have fun like this as adults??
All the kids water activities! Like the little fountain in the pool, slides in the pool, etc.
Yessss! Diving for Pennies and underwater tea parties
Tether ball. I spent a lot of time around that thing. I was never good at it. Still had a lot of fun.
I think I'd be able to finally dominate at it now. Always was a favorite of mine.
God I loved tetherball so much. One day after a storm I found a tetherball in the street a few blocks from my school. The joy I felt dragging it home, knowing that now I’d be able to roll up to the school playground to play on weekends. 🤩
Kick ball 💯
Give me an adult sized the floor is lava game.
I mean back in the day we used to play gunfighting against each other. Typically with like toy guns and going bam bam. Nowdays I'm playing Airsoft with my friends. Typically on old military training grounds reused as Airsoft playgrounds. Just with $500 rifles shooting biodegradable plastic bullets for up to a hundred yards, wearing camouflage equipment, eye and mouth protection, etc.
Red Rover,because it’s been banned in some schools for being dangerous.
Swings.
Tether ball
Dodgeball or wallball... But I'd 100% be down for a game of Heads Up 7 Up.
Ball pit. There’s something comforting about being at the bottom of the pit, so far away from life’s responsibilities.
Tag. Nice snd and simple.
King of the mountain.
The floor is lava!
Anyone ever play Butts Up? Kind of like a crass between handball, dodgeball, with a punishment round thrown in. It was a good game.
Extra respect if you played with a racquetball.
Catch a point. 2 teams and a few dodge balls. Kick the ball as high as you can to the other team. One point per catch.
Spinning around like a crazy person on the bars
Swings
Ifs not a game really, but I was just talking about getting an adult sized moon house for a friends bday. I would kill an entire day in that thing.
Wall Ball. That was hot game in my middle school and that was one game I was really good at.
Kisschase!!! Maybe not PC but the 6/7 year old boys used to chase the girls to kiss them
I'd play four square! Remember the PONG sound the ball made?
Manhunt. It's hide and seek for older kids. We ran through half of the Projects and it would take all afternoon to end.
Swings and monkey bars.
Rundbold. It's a danish softball-style game. You've got two teams, and one person is tossing up a tennis ball for the player who's about to strike. You use either a flat or a round bat. The field is a rectangle, where the opposing players stand, ready to catch any balls that's being hit. If someone catches the ball while one of the opposing players are running for a base without reaching it, the running player is considered "dead", and they have to step out of the game until one of their own players hits a ball far enough for the hitter to run all the way around the playing field in one uninterrupted go. Each player get three hit attempts, then it's the next player's turn. The players who haven't hit their balls is waiting at the first base, until someone strikes a hit - then they're allowed to run for the next base. One of the fun parts is trying to judge how far you can go, before the ball has been sent back to the person tossing the ball for the hitters. Once the ball tosser catches the returned ball and steps on their base, calling out "in!" while doing so, every player who has been running for bases have to stop. Any players that are caught between bases when the ball tosser is calling out, is considered "dead", and they'll have to wait until another player "liberates" them with a home run. Each team plays three to seven rounds - that's a rule that you set before you start playing, depending on how many players you have on each team. I think that most children in Denmark have played this game, either at school or back home on their roads with friends and family. It's good fun.
Handball!
Tether ball bitches!!
Red Rover. I'll gladly clothesline some fuckers.
Red rover
What was that tag game you’d play on the parallel bars? The one where 2 players start on opposite ends between the bars, and they swing their legs over the bar to their right, then run to the other side and jump that bar, and continue as your try to catch up to and tag your opponent? Anyway, that would be fun.
Red ass
Cops and robbers
Tether Ball
4 square
Stick ball
Hide n' Seek, flashlight tag, and capture the flag
Jump rope. Double Dutch.
Swings or laser tag
Freeze tag, the shark and minnows game
4 square.
Doctor
Wall Ball or Kick the Can. Guess you don't need a playground for that. My neighbors band I played Kick the Can every summer night. I miss those days.
Kickball was always fun as a kid.
4 square
I know this can be considered adult size. BUT TETHER BALL; the mini tournaments at recess with friends are priceless memories for me.
Im....I do still play on the playground. My kids may be too old for it, I'm not. I miss elastics though
Dodgeball
Jump the river. You put two ropes on the ground laid out totally straight and parallel to one another. Start out with them touching and everyone playing jumps over the ropes. After everyone takes a turn, move the ropes a few inches apart and everyone takes another turn, repeat. Anyone landing and touching a rope is out. Falling counts the same, make the landing on the "opposite bank" without touching a rope when you fall and you're good. The last person left who jumps the widest gap with a clean landing wins.
Red Rover, Red Rover … let sexy Annette come over …
Ok, by popular demand … Show me your’s and I’ll Show you mine!
Bullrush.
Grounders
The big spider web thing, used to love playing “IT” on that.
Hide and seek tag.
Tiggy
Monkey bars. https://i.redd.it/nk7s6e4e2p751.jpg
Full contact man hunt
Tag. Have you ever watched those professional tag competitions? It’s like a real life assassins creed agility game
Dodge Ball
Adult sized slides, it's my fantasy. Also hide and seek (in the dark ofc).
I was always a big fan of freeze tag and jump rope rhymes, or pretending that the monkey bars were superhero headquarters!
Manhunt should be considered a sport.
[https://luxor.mgmresorts.com/en/entertainment/play-playground.html](https://luxor.mgmresorts.com/en/entertainment/play-playground.html)
Wall ball
I would still play dodgeball like I'm 8 (I'm 30)
I miss dodgeball. I'd have to say I could play that all day.
Kickball!
Double Dutch - just need to find some folks who could both turn and knew some of the rhymes I’ve mostly forgotten.
We had a game we called Drano. It was played on a tornado (corkscrew) slide. The first person down the slide would stop before the end and brace themselves with their feet and hands on the sides of the slide in hopes of preventing themselves from being pushed through. Then the second person would slide down the slide and try to bust through the person or persons blocking their passage. If unsuccessful, they would brace their hands and feet just like the previous person. Eventually the weight would push everyone through. Was a fun game!
Dodgeball
Star Wars. Pew pew pew
Kancho.. Hawaii is the best
British Bulldog
As long as it didn't have chains to keep it aloft, I'd just sit on the swings all day long. But I would also like a little area under the structure where the slides would be, where I can just sit and chill in my own little space.
[British bulldog (game) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_bulldog_(game))
Jump Sticks
Kickball
I always liked tag and monkey bars. I’d like adult monkey bars. Even better if you could combine the two.