child's game

Definitions of child's game

1. noun

   a game enjoyed by children
   types:

   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

   double Dutch

   the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners

   type of:

   game

   a contest with rules to determine a winner