What outdoor games did you play as a kid? And how did you play it?

Question

I'm not talking about organized sports like kickball, baseball, and the like. More like "Duck, duck, goose" or "Moonlight Starlight."

Answer 1

Spotlight - like hide and seek, except for at night using a flashlight. If someone shined the light on you and either said your name or a phrase that was decided at the beginning of the game, you were out. There was a base that you were safe to get to. The last person caught (didn't make it to base) was IT the next time.

Answer 2

Kickball & Freeze Tag

Answer 3

British Bulldogs

One person has to run from one end of a patch of grass to the other.

No rules, just make it to the other end.

All the other people on the patch have to stop you. Then the 'stopper' has their go.

Brutal and very good fun - now banned in all UK schools.

Answer 4

Red Light Green Light. One person stands up and the other kids stand away from him at a good distance. When he faces them the other kids run towards him, when he turns his back they stop. Who ever gets to him first and touches his back or his arms first wins.

Answer 5

Red light, Green Light one kid would stand far away and yell green light! and we'd all run then they'd turn real quick and say 'Red light!" and we'd have to stop if you moved after Red Light you were out and the first person to get to the kid up front was It.

Answer 6

i am only 16 so i am still liking to play the same games i did when i was younger. i play, two-play soccer, me and my dog go outside, she is goalie and i am the kicker. she just has to block the ball.
I throw in the game i made up, it was called: Don't get drool on your hands. i had to throw sort of tennis ball to my dog and i have to say 'drop it' to her too let go cause i cannot get drool on my hands, and if she doesn't let go i just have to wrestle it out of her mouth and then i lose the game

those were games i made up with my dog. it is really fun.

Answer 7

hide-and-go-seek is a pretty standard game that kids play.....
freeze tag...and regular tag....cream the carrier..[but that's for older kids] mostly kids play different variations of tag that they have changed slightly but still hold the concept of running from one[or more] persons

Answer 8

I know that this is a very strange world we live in, but let me tell you about my most embarassing childhood experience.

You see, my mom got married a third time about six years ago now. I all of sudden had two little step-brothers. The oldest one, Danny, and the younger one Donnie. I had never had a brother ever before. I thought it was neat, I guess. Anyway, our parents were out for the weekend, (and it was a hot summer weekend), so I had to watch my two little step-brothers for the weekend. We were living at our house in Marrero, LA at the time. Now I have to explain something to you about how the house is constructed to continue this story. Right outside of the boys' bedroom window was the outside air conditioning unit, and right next to that, (on each side), were two long grounding poles. One kept the house grounded, the other kept the air conditioning unit grounded. Don't ask me why, that's just what the guy said when he sold us the place. Ok, now back to my story: One of the first games that I had ever played with the boys was "truth or dare". You all know this one. Anyway, at the very first question that I was asked, I said "dare". I didn't even give Danny the chance to give me the question yet. He said, "Ok , I want you to go stand outside, on top of the air conditioning unit, and Donnie and I will handcuff you to the lighting rod poles on either side of the a/c." (I took a double take.) So I said "ok" like an idiot and went and stood up on the air conditioning unit. (Now on the two poles on either side of the a/c unit, there were two metal round pieces that came up from about three quarters the way up on each pole- I didn't realize it at the time, but this meant that if the boys handcuffed me to both poles or either pole, that I would not be able to bring my hands down close to my sides.)

What happened was devestating: (Ok I was wearing my white skirt with a pink top and pink panties, I wasn't even in shoes or socks.) The boys proceeded to handcuff me to both poles at the same time. I said to Danny, "10 minutes right?", and he nodded his head yes. I had never stood on top of the a/c unit before, so this was all the more interesting:

The boys closed the window. So I'm standing there when I turn my head around behind me and see Barataria Blvd's traffic heading north-bound. (I had no idea that our a/c unit held me up above our fence line- then a noise cut on that made my little heart sink- the a/c unit.

The boys had turned down the thermostat in the house, causing the a/c unit to come on, and the end effect- it was blowing my white skirt up and I couldn't do anything about it, because my hands wouldn't go below my waist and they were held out too far from my body to hold my skirt down- in fact, I couldn't even touch my skirt! Then the dreadful thought entered into my mind- the north-bound traffic on Barataria could all see me handcuffed, helpless, and my skirt was blowing up, so everybody got a free peek of my panties that day. And to make matters worse, there was a traffic jam, so everybody got a good look at my behind in my pink panties.

(Sigh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)

Oh by the way the boys lied, they left me up there for three hours. But Mom and their Dad was out of town, so they could have left me up there for an entire day.) I rang Danny's and Donnie's neck for that one. (I didn't do anything- but Mom and Dad did- the boys had to go around the house all week in girl clothes because their Dad had said so.) And no, in none of my clothes, thank you. Thier Dad had bought them some girl clothes- and then I got to laugh. They didn't have any of their boy clothes in their dressers- just girl clothes. Pretty embarassing though, huh? Of course, they were back in boy clothes at the end of the week.

Answer 9

We played "maneuvers" which was basically "hide & seek" in the dark and inthe forest. and it was more or less a team thing.

Answer 10

I played red rover and tag a lot.