child's game

Noun
  1. A game enjoyed by children (synset 100484946)
    is a type of: game - a contest with rules to determine a winner
    subtypes:
    • blindman's bluff, blindman's buff - a children's game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify other players
    • cat and mouse, cat and rat - a game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands; they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first
    • cat's cradle - a game played with string looped over the fingers
    • hide and go seek, hide-and-seek - a game in which a child covers his eyes while the other players hide then tries to find them
    • hopscotch - a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone
    • jacks, jackstones, knucklebones - a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball
    • jackstraws, spillikins - a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others
    • jump rope - a child's game or a cardiopulmonary exercise in which the player jumps over a swinging rope
    • leapfrog - a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
    • marbles - a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)
    • mumble-the-peg, mumblety-peg - a game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground
    • going to jerusalem, musical chairs - a child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated
    • bopeep, peekaboo - a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo!
    • pillow fight - a child's game of fighting with pillows
    • post office - a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters
    • spin the bottle - a game in which a player spins a bottle and kisses the person that it points to when it stops spinning
    • spin the plate, spin the platter - a game in which something round (as a plate) is spun on edge and the name of a player is called; the named player must catch the spinning object before it falls or pay a forfeit
    • tag - a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
    • tiddlywinks - a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk

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