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CHILD'S GAME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A game enjoyed by children
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("child's game" is a kind of...):
game (a contest with rules to determine a winner)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "child's game"):
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)
tag (a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser)
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)
spin the bottle (a game in which a player spins a bottle and kisses the person that it points to when it stops spinning)
post office (a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters)
pillow fight (a child's game of fighting with pillows)
bopeep; peekaboo (a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo!)
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)
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)
marbles (a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass))
leapfrog (a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over)
jump rope (a child's game or a cardiopulmonary exercise in which the player jumps over a swinging rope)
jackstraws; spillikins (a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others)
jacks; jackstones; knucklebones (a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball)
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)
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)
cat's cradle (a game played with string looped over the fingers)
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)
blindman's bluff; blindman's buff (a children's game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify other players)
