Definition of child's game Child's game
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| child's game - a game enjoyed by children | ||
| game an amusement or pastime; "they played word games"; "he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time"; "his life was all fun and games" | ||
| 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-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, knucklebones, jackstones 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 rearrangement that has no practical effect or significance; "the company is looking for stability after years of musical chairs with directors"; "shareholders don't want the company playing musical chairs with their investment" | ||
| 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 (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game) | ||
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