FabSwingers.com forum: What game did you play at break time in school

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Me British Bulldog

Evening everyone

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By *izandScottCouple
over a year ago

Gatwick

In western Canada in winter at -30C with a frozen rubber soccer ball. It makes a curious ringing sound when it hits you in the face.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Did anyone ever play red letter?

1 person is the chaser

Everyone else gets a letter

Chasers can do anything to get the letter. Once you give up your letter, you’re a chaser. Last letter wins

“Do anything” just meant extreme levels of violence. Letters couldn’t fight back

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Had! You're it!!"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Me British Bulldog

Evening everyone

Great memories playing that

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By *uckowskiMan
over a year ago

edinburgh

"Did anyone ever play red letter?

1 person is the chaser

Everyone else gets a letter

Chasers can do anything to get the letter. Once you give up your letter, you’re a chaser. Last letter wins

“Do anything” just meant extreme levels of violence. Letters couldn’t fight back "

As a child I remember a simplified version of this game named simply Hunt the Cunt. It was a simpler time. A happier time...

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I read

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By *reative-mindMan
over a year ago

Exeter

I played find a friend, decades later I find I'm still playing the same game just on here now!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What time is it mr wolf?

Or skipping

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What time is it Mr Wolf

Skipping

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By *os19Man
over a year ago

Edmonton

I actually played football in the school playground

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Badminton always in secondary school....

Tig in primary

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Red arse

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By *melia DominaTV/TS
over a year ago

Edinburgh (She/Her)

Skilastics (rubberband high jump thing)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In primary school it would be Lurky Lurky or Stuck in the Mud

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By *glyBettyTV/TS
over a year ago

About 3 feet away from the fence

Mostly football (with a tennis ball)

For a short period of time in the early 1990s, the boys of our year 4 class used play "Turtles" during the height of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles craze.

This game basically was a form of social hierarchism, where the 4/5 most popular lads got to be the turtles + master splinter, and the remainder were designated the roles of Beebop/Rock steady & 'foot soldiers'.

The actual game itself was just these 2 groups performing kung-fu moves on each other & didn't last much longer once the teachers got wind of it.

For a short time we also played a very strange south London variant of marbles, which for some reason had to be played specifically on a square manhole covering in the playground.

It involved only 2 marbles (yours and the opponent) and you won by knocking the other ball off the cover, but you could only flick the ball along the floor, like flicking a subbuteo player.

The bumped surface of the manhole cover added an extra variable.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Patball and then football.

In primary school I played cricket and I played 40 40 (it).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also played Penny up the wall and one touch

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Hop Scotch

Tag

Queenie whoes got the ball

Mr wolf

French skipping that was my fave! I still get excited when I see elastic lol x

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By *unner6969Man
over a year ago

Bicester

Football, with a tennis ball.

Kiss chase became “Kick Chase” and one poor girl ended up with a broken collar bone. It was that sort of school, sadly.

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Ohh and kiss chase x

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By *issYeuxBleusWoman
over a year ago

My boudoir - S Wales

Kiss, cuddle or torture

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By *orny-DJMan
over a year ago

Leigh-on-Sea

I can't remember that far back

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

Delightful Bliss

Marbles

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Primary - racing toy cars until we were banned from bringing them in.

Secondary - football matches with 50 players aside. I think there was one entire break where no one realised we didn't have a football.

Big school - no games, but I took a screwdriver there and I'd undo the door handles and things.

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

Jumpers for goal posts....we had a kick about at break time....

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Had

Kick the can.

Conkers.

British Bulldog.

Kiss chase.

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By *obilebottomMan
over a year ago

All over

I was copying the homework of someone. Just joking, well mostly

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By *hatCoupleNextDoorCouple
over a year ago

nearby

Bulldog, 52 bonkers and codes (that could be vicious!)

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By *oppleWangerMan
over a year ago

Gods Country

We had an area of tyres to bounce around on, what a time to have been alive

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

We used to buy 10p worth of tiny little silver fishes from the Asda deli and put them down girls tops. Probably not too popular these days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What a nostalgia moment! Great question thanks OP.

Tag (Tig and Had are the same thing I think?)

Football

Pogs

What's the Time Mr Wolf

Races around the top field

Skipping, cartwheels, handstands, tumbling/gymnastics

Step up / step jumping competitions

Singing whatever songs we were obsessed with that week

The robot and the witch (an obscure make believe role play game my bff and I made up that I no longer remember the rules of), and other self-invented role play games/theatrical storytelling. You bet your ass we were the weird kids.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We used to buy 10p worth of tiny little silver fishes from the Asda deli and put them down girls tops. Probably not too popular these days "

Haha. This reminds me my sister and I used to pick those plans that have the itchy seeds and put them down people's tops/pants. Kids are assholes really. Some of us grow up and call it kinky

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

tig, you're it

Conkers

British Bulldog until it was banned in our playground

Skipping

Hopscotch

Kiss chase

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By *lder budweiserMan
over a year ago

Stirlingshire

Various versions of Tig

Code

30-a-side football

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Played with pippa dolls.

Tig

Stuck in the mud

two ball

ball.in a stocking you swung round

skipping

Then at secondary school it was elastic

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By *eaAndBiscuit1989Man
over a year ago

Burnley

Football

Red Arse

British Bulldog

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

Primary school.

British bull dog.

Red rover.

What time is it mr wolf.

Secondary school.

Football.

Cricket.

We also use to have milk bomb fights ( school sold cartons of milk for 25p, if you pealed the outer layer of cardboard off, you were left with a paper thin layer that would explode on impact)

In the winter in was snowball fights with stones in. ( many many injuries were caused, I once received a massive black eye)

The mr

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By *amierebelMan
over a year ago

My own little world

"Did anyone ever play red letter?

1 person is the chaser

Everyone else gets a letter

Chasers can do anything to get the letter. Once you give up your letter, you’re a chaser. Last letter wins

“Do anything” just meant extreme levels of violence. Letters couldn’t fight back "

Hunt the cunt we used to call this

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By *amierebelMan
over a year ago

My own little world

"Did anyone ever play red letter?

1 person is the chaser

Everyone else gets a letter

Chasers can do anything to get the letter. Once you give up your letter, you’re a chaser. Last letter wins

“Do anything” just meant extreme levels of violence. Letters couldn’t fight back

As a child I remember a simplified version of this game named simply Hunt the Cunt. It was a simpler time. A happier time...

Must be the Scottish name for it

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

I played trying not to burn my lip whilst sharing a cigarette with about 20 people in the end loo or behind the sports hall

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Throw stuff at the posh kids from the Grammar School walking through the playground to the dining hall because thier school didn't have a canteen.

In the winter it was ice balls, we made snowballs morning break then left out to freeze until lunchtime.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Football. Usually with a tennis ball as easy to carry.

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