Usually played in a swimming pool, one person, with their eyes shut or covered, yells "Marco!" and all other players, around the first person in the pool, yell "Polo!" and aren't allowed to move. The first person yells "Marco!" with everyone answering "Polo!" until the first person touches or "tags" a player, making them the seeker.
2006-08-07 21:30:09 · 8 answers · asked by merrily_macabre 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Other - Games & Recreation
Marco Polo...
This most popular of swimming games owes it's name to the Venetian explorer of the late 1200s and early 1300s whose travels to China, India and other parts of Asia helped to introduce the "mysterious Orient" to Western Europe.
Legend says that Marco Polo did not know where he was going when he first set out on his travels- hence the game's name.
from the book Pickle, Pepper and Tip-in too.
Kevin Nelson
2006-08-07 21:34:52 · answer #1 · answered by jennifersuem 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A guy named Marco Polo that traveled the world
2006-08-07 21:33:00 · answer #2 · answered by double v 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a kid named Marco Polo and ever since he was young he was blind, and all the kid made fun of him by taking his stuff and start saying marco polo and hide from him.
2006-08-07 22:04:50 · answer #3 · answered by Erik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marco Polo travlled the seas a few hundred years ago.
2006-08-07 21:35:51 · answer #4 · answered by Hawkeye 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe it's something with water polo... but maybe one day a kid learnt about marco polo at school, and thought it was a funny game, and use it for this game ?
2006-08-07 21:35:39 · answer #5 · answered by tokala 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing that it's just a game to play in the swimming pool?
2006-08-07 21:33:33 · answer #6 · answered by xxtakingbacksundayxx3 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try finding the history in google.
2006-08-07 21:32:57 · answer #7 · answered by sulaiman s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the people of middle earth messed with a blind man and called him a cuss word in latin.
2006-08-07 21:44:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋