English > child's game: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | A game / game enjoyed / enjoyed by children. |
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| Narrower | blindman's bluff, blindman's buff | A children's game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify other players |
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| cat's cradle | A game played with string looped over the fingers |
| cat and mouse, cat and rat | A game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands |
| hide-and-seek, hide and go 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 / game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber / rubber ball |
| jackstraws, spillikins | A game / 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 / 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) |
| mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg | A game / game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground |
| musical chairs, going to Jerusalem | 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 |
| peekaboo, bopeep | A game played with young children |
| 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 / game in which something round (as a plate) is spun on edge and the name of a player is called |
| tag | A game / game in which one child chases the others |
| tiddlywinks | A game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger / larger disk |
| Broader | game | A contest with rules to determine a winner |
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| Spanish | juego de niños |
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| Catalan | joc de nens |
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