matka

pl-noun

matka f (diminutive mateczka or mateńka or matuchna or (dialectal) matynka or matusia or matuś, augmentative matczysko, related adjective matczyny)

mateczka (diminutive)
mateńka (diminutive)
matuchna (diminutive)
matynka (dialectal diminutive)
matusia (diminutive)
matuś (diminutive)
matczysko (augmentative)
matczyny (adjective)

Inherited from Old Polish matka. By surface analysis, mać + -ka.

(uncountable, obsolete, children's games) type of children's game


hopscotch

No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

(playground games) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.


babka

babeczka (diminutive)
babka (nominative singular)
babki (nominative plural)
babki (genitive singular)
babek (genitive plural)
babce (dative singular)
babkom (dative plural)
babkę (accusative singular)
babki (accusative plural)
babką (instrumental singular)
babkami (instrumental plural)
babce (locative singular)
babkach (locative plural)
babko (singular vocative)
babki (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish babka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka.

(obsolete) die used in a particular children's game


babka

Inherited from Old Polish ka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka.

Pyrus communis
Pyrus communis#Translingual


mâță

mâțe (plural)
mâță (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
mâța (accusative definite nominative singular)
mâțe (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
mâțele (accusative definite nominative plural)
mâțe (indefinite singular)
mâței (definite singular)
mâțelor (definite plural)
mâță (singular vocative)
mâțo (singular vocative)
mâțelor (vocative)

Probably an onomatopoeic expressive creation, with similar words in many languages (compare Albanian mace). See also motan.
Alternatively of Romance origin, compare Italian micio, Old French mite and Spanish miz(o). See also German Mieze.
Could also be of Proto-Slavic *maca origin.


musical chairs

(children's games) A children's game in which players circle a group of chairs. There is one chair fewer than the number of players. When someone who is not watching stops playing music, everybody sits down, and the player left without a chair is eliminated.


granica

graniczny (adjective)
granica (nominative singular)
granice (nominative plural)
granicy (genitive singular)
granic (genitive plural)
granicy (dative singular)
granicom (dative plural)
granicę (accusative singular)
granice (accusative plural)
granicą (instrumental singular)
granicami (instrumental plural)
granicy (locative singular)
granicach (locative plural)
granico (singular vocative)
granice (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish granica. By surface analysis, grań + -ica.

(obsolete, children's games) type of children's game


macaca

pt-noun

macaca f (plural macacas, masculine macaco, masculine plural macacos)

macacas (plural)
macaco (masculine)
macacos (masculine plural)


숨바꼭질

First attested in the Bak Tongsa eonhae (朴通事諺解 / 박통사언해), 1677, as Early Modern Korean 숨막질 (Yale: swummakcil). From 숨— (sum-, “to hide”) + 막— (mak-, “to prevent”) (?) + —질 (-jil, nominalisation suffix).

ko-etym-native

우리는 단속원들과 숨바꼭질을 하면서 장사를 하는 노점상들을 쉽게 찾아볼 수 있다.

We can easily find street vendors in business who are playing hide-and-seek with the street wardens.

urineun dansogwondeulgwa sumbakkokjireul hamyeonseo jangsareul haneun nojeomsangdeureul swipge chajabol su itda.


pattycake

(children's games) A children's game in which two people alternately clap their own and each other's hands, often to the accompaniment of the nursery rhyme "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man".


koło

kółko (diminutive)
koło (nominative singular)
koła (nominative plural)
koła (genitive singular)
kół (genitive plural)
kołu (dative singular)
kołom (dative plural)
koło (accusative singular)
koła (accusative plural)
kołem (instrumental singular)
kołami (instrumental plural)
kole (locative singular)
kołach (locative plural)
koło (singular vocative)
koła (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish koło. Doublet of kolo. Related to English cycle and wheel.


patty cake

en-noun

patty cake (countable and uncountable, plural patty cakes)

(uncountable) A children's clapping game, played while reciting a rhyme about baking a cake.

When his task was completed we'd lie on the freshly mown lawn, watch clouds heap themselves towards heaven, listen to Carmen, and wait for Mamie's patty cakes to come out of the oven.

2012, Sophie Boswell, Breaking Loose: An Australian Story:

(countable, Australia) A cupcake or fairy cake.


król

król (nominative singular)
króle (nominative plural)
króla (genitive singular)
króli (genitive plural)
królowi (dative singular)
królom (dative plural)
króla (accusative singular)
króle (accusative plural)
królem (instrumental singular)
królami (instrumental plural)
królu (locative singular)
królach (locative plural)
królu (singular vocative)
króle (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish król. Sense 2, sense 3, and sense 4 and are an internationalism semantic loan; compare English king, French roi and German König. Doublet of Karol.

(obsolete, children's games) a type of children's ball game.


monkey in the middle

monkey in the middle (countable and uncountable, plural monkeys in the middle)

(children's games, uncountable) A children's game in which two players keep an object away from a third player (who is in between them) by throwing it past that player.


공기

First attested in the Yeogeo yuhae (譯語類解 / 역어유해), 1690, as Early Modern Korean 공긔 (Yale: kwongkuy).

ko-etym-native

Gonggi, a Korean children's game similar to jacks.


I've got your nose

(children's games) A young children's game in which someone simulates stealing the victim's nose from their face and demonstrates this by showing their own thumb protruding between the index and middle fingers.


komórka

pl-noun

komórka f (diminutive komóreczka, augmentative komóra, related adjective komórkowy)

komóreczka (diminutive)
komóra (augmentative)
komórkowy (adjective)
komórka (nominative singular)
komórki (nominative plural)
komórki (genitive singular)
komórek (genitive plural)
komórce (dative singular)
komórkom (dative plural)
komórkę (accusative singular)
komórki (accusative plural)
komórką (instrumental singular)
komórkami (instrumental plural)
komórce (locative singular)
komórkach (locative plural)
komórko (singular vocative)
komórki (plural vocative)

→ German: Kamurke

→ Kashubian: kòmórka (semantic loan)

→ Russian: камо́рка (kamórka)

→ Ukrainian: комі́рка (komírka)

Inherited from Old Polish komórka. By surface analysis, komora + -ka. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Latin cellula. Sense 6 is a semantic loan from English cell. Compare Slovincian kômórka.

sl

(in the plural, obsolete, children's games) a type of children's game


ハンカチ落し

ハンカチ落し (canonical)
hankachi-otoshi (romanization)

a Japanese children's game, which is similar to Duck Duck Goose,


鬼ごっこ

鬼ごっこ (canonical)
onigokko (romanization)


slapsies

(UK, hand games, children's games) A children's game in which the players position themselves in a circle and each place one hand in the centre (normally on top of a table or other item of furniture). An ordinal number or another word such as "last" or "penultimate" is then called out by someone and whoever draws their hand away from the circle at that position has their hand slapped by the other players.

hand games; children's games; hand games; children's games


play house

en-verb

play house (third-person singular simple present plays house, present participle playing house, simple past and past participle played house)

plays house (present singular third-person)
playing house (participle present)
played house (participle past)
played house (past)

They can keep all their things there and play house in their own way.

(children's games) To pretend to be a family in the household, acting out housekeeping and different family roles.


чехарда

ru-noun+

чехарда́ • (čexardá) f inan (genitive чехарды́, uncountable)

чехарда́ (canonical)
čexardá (romanization)
чехарды́ (genitive)
чехарда́ (nominative singular)
чехарды́ (genitive singular)
чехарде́ (dative singular)
чехарду́ (accusative singular)
чехардо́й (instrumental singular)
чехардо́ю (instrumental singular)
чехарде́ (prepositional singular)

A Kipchak borrowing, in recent Tatar шыгырдий (şığırdiy), derived from шыгырдау (şığırdaw, “to craunch”), after onomatopoeic interjection шыгыр (şığır), шағыр akin to Chuvash шăкăр (šăkăr), Turkmen шығыр.


zamówić

zamawiać (imperfective)
zamówić (infinitive)
zamówię (future singular)
zamówimy (future plural)
zamówisz (future singular)
zamówicie (future plural)
zamówi (future singular third-person)
zamówią (future plural third-person)
zamówi się (future impersonal)
zamówiłem (masculine past singular)
-(e)m zamówił (masculine past singular)
zamówiłam (feminine past singular)
-(e)m zamówiła (feminine past singular)
zamówiłom (neuter past singular)
-(e)m zamówiło (neuter past singular)
zamówiliśmy (past plural virile)
-(e)śmy zamówili (past plural virile)
zamówiłyśmy (nonvirile past plural)
-(e)śmy zamówiły (nonvirile past plural)
zamówiłeś (masculine past singular)
-(e)ś zamówił (masculine past singular)
zamówiłaś (feminine past singular)
-(e)ś zamówiła (feminine past singular)
zamówiłoś (neuter past singular)
-(e)ś zamówiło (neuter past singular)
zamówiliście (past plural virile)
-(e)ście zamówili (past plural virile)
zamówiłyście (nonvirile past plural)
-(e)ście zamówiły (nonvirile past plural)
zamówił (masculine past singular third-person)
zamówiła (feminine past singular third-person)
zamówiło (neuter past singular third-person)
zamówili (past plural third-person virile)
zamówiły (nonvirile past plural third-person)
zamówiono (impersonal past)
zamówiłbym (conditional masculine singular)
bym zamówił (conditional masculine singular)
zamówiłabym (conditional feminine singular)
bym zamówiła (conditional feminine singular)
zamówiłobym (conditional neuter singular)
bym zamówiło (conditional neuter singular)
zamówilibyśmy (conditional plural virile)
byśmy zamówili (conditional plural virile)
zamówiłybyśmy (conditional nonvirile plural)
byśmy zamówiły (conditional nonvirile plural)
zamówiłbyś (conditional masculine singular)
byś zamówił (conditional masculine singular)
zamówiłabyś (conditional feminine singular)
byś zamówiła (conditional feminine singular)
zamówiłobyś (conditional neuter singular)
byś zamówiło (conditional neuter singular)
zamówilibyście (conditional plural virile)
byście zamówili (conditional plural virile)
zamówiłybyście (conditional nonvirile plural)
byście zamówiły (conditional nonvirile plural)
zamówiłby (conditional masculine singular third-person)
by zamówił (conditional masculine singular third-person)
zamówiłaby (conditional feminine singular third-person)
by zamówiła (conditional feminine singular third-person)
zamówiłoby (conditional neuter singular third-person)
by zamówiło (conditional neuter singular third-person)
zamówiliby (conditional plural third-person virile)
by zamówili (conditional plural third-person virile)
zamówiłyby (conditional nonvirile plural third-person)
by zamówiły (conditional nonvirile plural third-person)
zamówiono by (conditional impersonal)
niech zamówię (imperative singular)
zamówmy (imperative plural)
zamów (imperative singular)
zamówcie (imperative plural)
niech zamówi (imperative singular third-person)
niech zamówią (imperative plural third-person)
zamówiony (adjectival masculine participle passive singular)
zamówiona (adjectival feminine participle passive singular)
zamówione (adjectival neuter participle passive singular)
zamówieni (adjectival participle passive plural virile)
zamówione (adjectival nonvirile participle passive plural)
zamówiwszy (adverbial anterior participle)
zamówienie (noun-from-verb)

Inherited from Old Polish zamówić. By surface analysis, za- + mówić. Compare Czech zamluvit.

(intransitive, children's games) to say uncle, to be out, to call time out


neca

Uncertain. Perhaps from Latin nec (“nor, not”).


neca

(Mozambique) Synonym of amarelinha (“hopscotch”)


籠目籠目

籠目籠目 (canonical)
kagome kagome (romanization)

A Japanese children's game, similar to blind man's buff: The one in the middle is the demon, or 'It'. The demon has to keep their eyes covered while the others sing or chant and circle around him. When they stop, the demon has to guess who is sitting behind them.


duck, duck, goose

(children's games) A game in which one player walks around a circle of others, designating each of them as a "duck" until selecting one as the "goose", who must then chase the selector.


足掻き

Compound of 足 (ashi, “foot”) + 掻き (kaki, “scratching”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 掻く (kaku, “to scratch”)). The kaki changes to gaki as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

compound

a children's game played by hopping around on one foot


amarelinha

The child's game sense is probably from French marelle (“hopscotch”), later reinterpreted as having to do with amarelo (“yellow”).


dança das cadeiras

pt-noun

dança das cadeiras f (plural danças das cadeiras)

/ˈdɐ̃.sɐ dɐʃ kɐˈdɐj.ɾɐʃ/

[ˈdɐ̃.sɐ ðɐʃ kɐˈðɐj.ɾɐʃ]

/ˈdɐ̃.sɐ dɐʃ kɐˈdɐj.ɾɐʃ/

[ˈdɐ̃.sɐ ðɐʃ kɐˈðɐj.ɾɐʃ]

/ˈdɐ̃.sɐ dɐʃ kɐˈdej.ɾɐʃ/

[ˈdɐ̃.sɐ ðɐʃ kɐˈðej.ɾɐʃ]

/ˈdɐ̃.sɐ dɐʃ kɐˈdej.ɾɐʃ/

[ˈdɐ̃.sɐ ðɐʃ kɐˈðej.ɾɐʃ]

/ˈdɐ̃.sɐ dɐʃ kɐˈde.ɾɐʃ/

[ˈdɐ̃.sɐ ðɐʃ kɐˈðe.ɾɐʃ]


pega-pega

/ˌpɛ.ɡɐˈpɛ.ɡɐ/

/ˌpɛ.ɡɐˈpɛ.ɡɐ/

/ˌpɛ.ɡɐˈpɛ.ɡɐ/

[ˌpɛ.ɣɐˈpɛ.ɣɐ]

tag (game in which a child attempts to catch other children)


花一匁

花一匁 (canonical)
hanaichimonme (romanization)

a traditional Japanese children's game that is similar to the game red rover


隠れん坊

隠れん坊 (canonical)
kakurenbo (romanization)


隠れん坊

ja-noun

隠(かく)れん坊(ぼう) • (kakurenbō) ^(←かくれんばう (kakurenbau)?)

隠れん坊 (canonical)
kakurenbō (romanization)
kakurenbau (romanization)
かくれんばう (hiragana historical)

[ka̠kɯ̟ɾẽ̞mbo̞ː]


隠れ鬼

隠れ鬼 (canonical)
kakureoni (romanization)

[ka̠kɯ̟ɾe̞o̞ɲ̟i]


隠れ遊び

隠れ遊び (canonical)
kakureasobi (romanization)


隠れ子

[ka̠kɯ̟ɾe̞ɡo̞]


芋虫

芋虫 (canonical)
芋虫 (canonical)
imomushi (romanization)

Compound of 芋 (imo, “potato, tuber”) + 虫 (mushi, “bug, worm”). Refers specifically to hairless caterpillars, most specifically to varieties that eat the leaves of the 里芋 (sato imo, “taro”) or 薩摩芋 (satsuma imo, “sweet potato”).
First attested in the Nippo Jisho of 1603.

compound

(figurative) an angry person (from the way that a person may puff up when angry and go red and swollen in the face, similar to the defense behaviors of some caterpillars)


handjeklap

(Netherlands) children's game in which players clap each other's hands


zamawiać

zamówić (perfective)
zamawiać (infinitive)
zamawiam (present singular)
zamawiamy (plural present)
zamawiasz (present singular)
zamawiacie (plural present)
zamawia (present singular third-person)
zamawiają (plural present third-person)
zamawia się (impersonal present)
zamawiałem (masculine past singular)
-(e)m zamawiał (masculine past singular)
zamawiałam (feminine past singular)
-(e)m zamawiała (feminine past singular)
zamawiałom (neuter past singular)
-(e)m zamawiało (neuter past singular)
zamawialiśmy (past plural virile)
-(e)śmy zamawiali (past plural virile)
zamawiałyśmy (nonvirile past plural)
-(e)śmy zamawiały (nonvirile past plural)
zamawiałeś (masculine past singular)
-(e)ś zamawiał (masculine past singular)
zamawiałaś (feminine past singular)
-(e)ś zamawiała (feminine past singular)
zamawiałoś (neuter past singular)
-(e)ś zamawiało (neuter past singular)
zamawialiście (past plural virile)
-(e)ście zamawiali (past plural virile)
zamawiałyście (nonvirile past plural)
-(e)ście zamawiały (nonvirile past plural)
zamawiał (masculine past singular third-person)
zamawiała (feminine past singular third-person)
zamawiało (neuter past singular third-person)
zamawiali (past plural third-person virile)
zamawiały (nonvirile past plural third-person)
zamawiano (impersonal past)
będę zamawiał (future masculine singular)
będę zamawiać (future masculine singular)
będę zamawiała (feminine future singular)
będę zamawiać (feminine future singular)
będę zamawiało (future neuter singular)
będę zamawiać (future neuter singular)
będziemy zamawiali (future plural virile)
będziemy zamawiać (future plural virile)
będziemy zamawiały (future nonvirile plural)
będziemy zamawiać (future nonvirile plural)
będziesz zamawiał (future masculine singular)
będziesz zamawiać (future masculine singular)
będziesz zamawiała (feminine future singular)
będziesz zamawiać (feminine future singular)
będziesz zamawiało (future neuter singular)
będziesz zamawiać (future neuter singular)
będziecie zamawiali (future plural virile)
będziecie zamawiać (future plural virile)
będziecie zamawiały (future nonvirile plural)
będziecie zamawiać (future nonvirile plural)
będzie zamawiał (future masculine singular third-person)
będzie zamawiać (future masculine singular third-person)
będzie zamawiała (feminine future singular third-person)
będzie zamawiać (feminine future singular third-person)
będzie zamawiało (future neuter singular third-person)
będzie zamawiać (future neuter singular third-person)
będą zamawiali (future plural third-person virile)
będą zamawiać (future plural third-person virile)
będą zamawiały (future nonvirile plural third-person)
będą zamawiać (future nonvirile plural third-person)
będzie zamawiać się (future impersonal)
zamawiałbym (conditional masculine singular)
bym zamawiał (conditional masculine singular)
zamawiałabym (conditional feminine singular)
bym zamawiała (conditional feminine singular)
zamawiałobym (conditional neuter singular)
bym zamawiało (conditional neuter singular)
zamawialibyśmy (conditional plural virile)
byśmy zamawiali (conditional plural virile)
zamawiałybyśmy (conditional nonvirile plural)
byśmy zamawiały (conditional nonvirile plural)
zamawiałbyś (conditional masculine singular)
byś zamawiał (conditional masculine singular)
zamawiałabyś (conditional feminine singular)
byś zamawiała (conditional feminine singular)
zamawiałobyś (conditional neuter singular)
byś zamawiało (conditional neuter singular)
zamawialibyście (conditional plural virile)
byście zamawiali (conditional plural virile)
zamawiałybyście (conditional nonvirile plural)
byście zamawiały (conditional nonvirile plural)
zamawiałby (conditional masculine singular third-person)
by zamawiał (conditional masculine singular third-person)
zamawiałaby (conditional feminine singular third-person)
by zamawiała (conditional feminine singular third-person)
zamawiałoby (conditional neuter singular third-person)
by zamawiało (conditional neuter singular third-person)
zamawialiby (conditional plural third-person virile)
by zamawiali (conditional plural third-person virile)
zamawiałyby (conditional nonvirile plural third-person)
by zamawiały (conditional nonvirile plural third-person)
zamawiano by (conditional impersonal)
niech zamawiam (imperative singular)
zamawiajmy (imperative plural)
zamawiaj (imperative singular)
zamawiajcie (imperative plural)
niech zamawia (imperative singular third-person)
niech zamawiają (imperative plural third-person)
zamawiający (active adjectival masculine participle singular)
zamawiająca (active adjectival feminine participle singular)
zamawiające (active adjectival neuter participle singular)
zamawiający (active adjectival participle plural virile)
zamawiające (active adjectival nonvirile participle plural)
zamawiany (adjectival masculine participle passive singular)
zamawiana (adjectival feminine participle passive singular)
zamawiane (adjectival neuter participle passive singular)
zamawiani (adjectival participle passive plural virile)
zamawiane (adjectival nonvirile participle passive plural)
zamawiając (adjectival contemporary participle)
zamawianie (noun-from-verb)

Inherited from Old Polish zamawiać. By surface analysis, za- + mawiać.


술래잡기

[sʰuɭɭɛd͡ʑa̠p̚k͈i]

From 술래 (sullae) (< 순라 (巡邏, sulla)) + 잡— (jap-) + —기 (-gi).


音樂椅

/in⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹ i²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/jɐm⁵⁵ ŋɔːk̚² jiː³⁵/

/in⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹ i²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/jɐm⁵⁵ ŋɔːk̚² jiː³⁵/


根っ木

a children's game in which a wooden stick driven into the ground is dislodged by sticks thrown at it


跳房子

/tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ fɑŋ³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/

/tʰiːu̯³³ fɔːŋ²¹ t͡siː³⁵/

/tʰiɛu²¹³⁻¹³ fɔŋ³⁵ t͡sz̩²/

/tʰi̯ɒu̯⁴⁵ ɸan¹³ t͡sz̩³/

/tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ fɑŋ³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/

/tʰiːu̯³³ fɔːŋ²¹ t͡siː³⁵/

/tʰiɛu²¹³⁻¹³ fɔŋ³⁵ t͡sz̩²/

/tʰi̯ɒu̯⁴⁵ ɸan¹³ t͡sz̩³/


跳格子

/tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ kɤ³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/

/tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ kɤ³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/


chat perché

jouer à chat perché


غميضة

ar-noun

غُمَّيْضَة • (ḡummayḍa) f

غُمَّيْضَة (canonical)
ḡummayḍa (romanization)
غُمَّيْضَة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْغُمَّيْضَة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
غُمَّيْضَة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
غُمَّيْضَةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْغُمَّيْضَةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
غُمَّيْضَةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
غُمَّيْضَةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
الْغُمَّيْضَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
غُمَّيْضَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
غُمَّيْضَةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْغُمَّيْضَةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
غُمَّيْضَةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)


غميضة

ary-noun

غمِّيضة or غمَّيْضة • (ḡummīḍa or ḡummayḍa) f

غمِّيضة (canonical)
غمَّيْضة (canonical)
ḡummīḍa (romanization)
ḡummayḍa (romanization)


ciuciubabka

ciuciubabka (nominative singular)
ciuciubabki (nominative plural)
ciuciubabki (genitive singular)
ciuciubabek (genitive plural)
ciuciubabce (dative singular)
ciuciubabkom (dative plural)
ciuciubabkę (accusative singular)
ciuciubabki (accusative plural)
ciuciubabką (instrumental singular)
ciuciubabkami (instrumental plural)
ciuciubabce (locative singular)
ciuciubabkach (locative plural)
ciuciubabko (singular vocative)
ciuciubabki (plural vocative)

Univerbation of ciu, ciu, babko, an exclamation directed at the blindfolded player. Originally regional, from dialectal Ukrainian цю (cju, “hither”).

(colloquial, figurative) situation in which one is forced to act in the dark


煮飯仔

/t͡syː³⁵ faːn²² t͡sɐi̯³⁵/

/t͡syː³⁵ faːn²² t͡sɐi̯³⁵/

(Cantonese, children's games) house; play house


حابة

حابة • (ḥāba) f


picapedrell

From picapedra + -ell. So named from the cry of "Picapedrell, qui té l'anell?" ("Grey heron, who has the ring?"), which is the signal to begin the guessing phase of the game.

a children's game in which a ring is secretly passed from hand to hand until a signal is given to begin guessing and then one player has to guess which of the other players has it


影踏み

[ka̠ɡe̞ɸɯ̟mʲi]

影(かげ) (kage, “shadow”) + 踏(ふ)み (fumi, “stepping”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 踏(ふ)む (fumu, “to step on”).).

ja-compound

"stepping on shadows", a children's game


xarranca

From eixarrancar-se (“to spread the legs”).


사방치기

사방(四方) (sabang, “four sides”) + 치기 (chigi), verbal noun of 치다 (chida, “hit; play”).


達磨さんが転んだ

ja-noun

だるま-さん が ころんだ

達(だる)磨(ま)さんが転(ころ)んだ • (daruma-san ga koronda)

達磨さんが転んだ (canonical)
daruma-san ga koronda (romanization)

ja:だるまさんがころんだ

[da̠ɾɯ̟ma̠sa̠ŋ ɡa̠ ko̞ɾõ̞nda̠]

daruma-san ga koronda
daruma-san ga koronda

daruma-san ga koronda ("Daruma fell over"), a Japanese children's game equivalent to the Western "statues"


追い掛けっこ

追い掛けっこ (canonical)
oikakekko (romanization)

From 追(お)い掛(か)け (oikake, “連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 追(お)い掛(か)ける (oikakeru).”) + っこ (-kko).


鼬ごっこ

ja-noun

鼬(いたち)ごっこ • (itachi-gokko) ^(←いたちごつこ (itatigotuko)?)

鼬ごっこ (canonical)
itachi-gokko (romanization)
itatigotuko (romanization)
いたちごつこ (hiragana historical)

Of 鼬(いたち) (itachi, “weasel”) + ごっこ (-gokko, “make-believe, playing”). The game is attested from the early 19th century, with the figurative use from the 1870s. The figurative sense likely derives from the fact that the game involves repeating the same action, with no set end.

ja-compound

(figuratively) doing the same thing again and again with no progress


it-bulaga

it-bulagâ (canonical)
ᜁᜆ᜔ᜊᜓᜎᜄ (Baybayin)

[ˌʔit̪ bʊ.lɐˈɣaʔ]

From bulaga. The first component it is onomatopoeic, possibly from the sound of doors creaking.


石蹴

Compound of 石 (ishi, “stone, rock”) + 蹴り (keri, “kicking”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 蹴る (keru, “to kick”)).
First cited to the late 1800s.

compound

Daijisen#Online_search_engines
Kōjien
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Shinmura Izuru


afariketa

afariketa (absolutive indefinite)
afariketa (absolutive indefinite singular)
afariketak (absolutive indefinite plural)
afariketak (ergative indefinite)
afariketak (ergative indefinite singular)
afariketek (ergative indefinite plural)
afariketari (dative indefinite)
afariketari (dative indefinite singular)
afariketei (dative indefinite plural)
afariketaren (genitive indefinite)
afariketaren (genitive indefinite singular)
afariketen (genitive indefinite plural)
afariketarekin (comitative indefinite)
afariketarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
afariketekin (comitative indefinite plural)
afariketarengatik (causative indefinite)
afariketarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
afariketengatik (causative indefinite plural)
afariketarentzat (benefactive indefinite)
afariketarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
afariketentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
afariketaz (indefinite instrumental)
afariketaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
afariketez (indefinite instrumental plural)
afariketatan (indefinite inessive)
afariketan (indefinite inessive singular)
afariketetan (indefinite inessive plural)
afariketatako (indefinite locative)
afariketako (indefinite locative singular)
afariketetako (indefinite locative plural)
afariketatara (allative indefinite)
afariketara (allative indefinite singular)
afariketetara (allative indefinite plural)
afariketataraino (indefinite terminative)
afariketaraino (indefinite singular terminative)
afariketetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
afariketatarantz (directive indefinite)
afariketarantz (directive indefinite singular)
afariketetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
afariketatarako (destinative indefinite)
afariketarako (destinative indefinite singular)
afariketetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
afariketatatik (ablative indefinite)
afariketatik (ablative indefinite singular)
afariketetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
afariketarik (indefinite partitive)
afariketatzat (indefinite prolative)


sawsaw-suka

tl-noun

sawsáw-sukà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜏ᜔ᜐᜏ᜔ᜐᜓᜃ)

sawsáw-sukà (canonical)
ᜐᜏ᜔ᜐᜏ᜔ᜐᜓᜃ (Baybayin)

From sawsaw + suka, literally “dipping [into] vinegar”.

compound

(children's games) a two-player game where the first player tries to tap their finger into the second player's open palm and the second player will then try to catch the first player's finger after chanting “sawsaw-suka, mahuli taya” (literally, “dipping into vinegar, the caught is it”)

Traditional games in the Philippines#Sawsaw-suka


dizzy izzy

(children's games) A playground game for children, or adults at work functions or parties, involving each player bending down with their head pressed into a pole or a standing baseball bat or wiffleball bat, spinning around the pole several times, and then attempting to walk or run in a straight line often while performing some other activity.


campaneta la ning-ning

A children's game similar to hunt the thimble.


corretgeta

A children's game similar to hide the handkerchief in which the player who finds the handkerchief is allowed to whip the other players with it.


Plumpsack

de-noun

Plumpsack m (strong, genitive Plumpsackes or Plumpsacks, plural Plumpsäcke)

Plumpsackes (genitive)
Plumpsacks (genitive)
Plumpsäcke (plural)
Plumpsack (nominative singular)
Plumpsäcke (definite nominative plural)
Plumpsackes (genitive singular)
Plumpsacks (genitive singular)
Plumpsäcke (definite genitive plural)
Plumpsack (dative singular)
Plumpsacke (dative singular)
Plumpsäcken (dative definite plural)
Plumpsack (accusative singular)
Plumpsäcke (accusative definite plural)

desc

→ English: blumsak (“a children's game”) — Pennsylvania

From Latin plumbum swapped with plump (“plump, clumsy”) or plumpsen (“to plump”) and Klump(e) (“lump”) + Sack (“bag”).

(children's games) various games in which a twisted kerchief, more or less dangerous, is used, such as duck, duck, goose


blumsak

It’s a hot Sunday afternoon and we have just put away on overabundance of taste Pennsylvania Dutch food. The cousins are returning from a walk up the road to the “Five Points” and now head back to the barn for a game of blumsak, a “form of tag using a knotted burlap bag.“

1930–1962, Mammi Rutt, Back Porch Memories. Family Stories and Diaries of Harry Zimmerman Rutt & Ida Musselman Nolt, H.W. Rutt, published 2007, →ISBN, page 7:

(Pennsylvania Dutch English, dated) a children's game equivalent to duck, duck, goose


bahay-bahayan

tl-noun

baháy-bahayan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜌ᜔ᜊᜑᜌᜈ᜔)

baháy-bahayan (canonical)
ᜊᜑᜌ᜔ᜊᜑᜌᜈ᜔ (Baybayin)

From reduplication of bahay + -an, literally “pretend house”.


zikketta

(children's games) a Maltese children's game played with beads or nuts


麻芝姑

/maː²¹ t͡siː⁵⁵ kuː⁵⁵/

/maː²¹ t͡siː⁵⁵ kuː⁵⁵/

rock paper scissors
rock paper scissors#English

(Cantonese, children's games) A variation of the drinking game, using the three hand shapes of rock paper scissors


peguei seu nariz

Inicialmente era brincadeira, do tipo peguei seu nariz, depois era só por maldade.

2015 May 18, Gillian Flynn, Lugares escuros, Editora Intrinseca, →ISBN:

At first it was a joke, like I've got your nose, then it was just out of spite.

(Brazil, children's games) I've got your nose (a young children's game in which someone simulates stealing the victim's nose from their face)


adoleta

(children's games) a children's game similar to pattycake in which two people alternately clap their own and each other's hands, often to the accompaniment of the nursery rhyme "Adoleta"


przewieźć ropuchę

(intransitive, Near Masovian) to place a toad on the end of a plank supported in the middle, and then launch it by striking the other end, played as a young boy's game


quatre sabaters

ca-noun

quatre sabaters m or m pl (sometimes plural only, in variation, invariable)

paper fortune teller
w:paper fortune teller


cel-infern

From cel (“heaven”) + infern (“hell”). Compare Italian inferno-paradiso and German Himmel oder Hölle.

A children's game played with a paper fortune teller.