What were your typical elementary school recess activities?

[Jazoni89]

We don't call it Recess in england, we just call it break, because we like to be boring, and all that.

So anyway, my favourite break time activity when i was at school was...

British Bulldog

For anyone who doesn't know, the aim of the game was to get to the other side of the playground without being touched, and the last one left standing is the winner.

At the start their would be one chaser, which would then touch someone who then would become a chaser in the next round when everyone left has gone over to the other side.

Every time a new round starts, someone shouts British bulldog 1, 2, 3, and all the chasers start in the middle (or the other end) of the playground.

It was amazing, especially when most of the playground was in on the game. Sadly i only played it when i was in juniors.

Seriously, you've never lived until you have played British bulldog.

EDIT: holy crap, they banned it in some schools nowadays, health and safety is going out of control!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_bulldogs_(game)

 

[trollnystan]

We played Shark, where a group of us would sit at the top of the ginormous slide and one of us - the shark - would climb up from the bottom and pull the victims down. I loved that game...

Also various ball games, occasional sing-a-longs, snowball fights during the winter, etc etc. I loved 4-6 grade (in Sweden that's when you're ages 10-12).

 

[WrcklessIntent]

We would normally play cops and robbers and ctf. Best recess games ever.

 

[Abbyrose07]

Just playing on the playground equipment, Wall Ball, Jump Rope, Skip it, 4 Square, Kick Ball, Tag, Red Rover, Soccer, Midnight, Playing Power Rangers....lol etc...

 

[wolfkts]

Tag, football, or hacky sack mostly.

 

[archvile93]

I sat against a wall until it was time to come in.

 

[ShockValue]

Pretty much soccer >.> Everyday...

 

[PinkiePyro]

tag and playing with various small plastic figures and pogs

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

Hmm on the younger side of elementary swings, see-saw, discuss cartoons and for some ungodly reason basic politics in the giant tires. On the older side of the playground grass sledding, baseball, football, soccer, and rugby, also discussing cartoons, politics, and what have you on a thing made out of tires.

I miss those tire things.

 

[The Heavy Metal Nerd]

I was home-schooled as a kid, so my breaks were spent reading through whatever ungodly amount of books I'd checked out from the library the previous week.

 

[Jark212]

I played Handball and tag a lot...

Then traded Pokemon cards...

 

[Jedamethis]

Well, since me and friends were small we've pretty much done exactly the same things at break/lunchtime. Charades, "The Thiiing!", card games, or just hanging around. Occasionally playing lazy tig or Duck Duck Goose.

The Thiiing! is a game where one person is a judge, and they say to act out something. Everybody takes turns acting it out, and whoever was funniest won. Whenever we had nothing to do and passed a corner...
"What shall we play..."

...

"The Thiiing!"

And we try to get other people involved in playing tig. But they never do anything and we can't play anymore becuase nobody's it. :/

I played Handball and tag a lot...

Then traded Pokemon cards...

Handball! Completely forgot about that.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Well in kindergarten we'd play tag, and just scream and run around. 1-3 grade, our school never had a "playground" instead it was a parking lot that was fenced in. And every grade was out at once so it was cramped, tag=falling on ground but it was worth it. Baseball= ball leaving fence and having to get it. So me and about 10 people would use our imagination instead, and pretend we fought dragons and such, so much fun. Then 4-6 grade, we had a real place to play. Baseball field, and a place to play football(american by the way). I would play until 6th grade, which is when I would then go and talk to the girls. hang out with them, impress them and such. Now in 10 grade, 16 years old. Not much has changed other then, we don't have recess we have gym, which no one enjoys. WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO MA PING PONG FROM LAST YEAR!!11!!!!!!!11!!!! Also I do less trying to imress girls, since I can do that with out trying, I just gotta turn my swag on.

 

[trooper6]

Kickball
Dodgeball
Wallball (which we called handball)
Four Square
Playing on the Jungle Gym
Tag, Freeze Tag, Melting Freeze Tag
Red Rover
Jump Rope
Chinese Jump Rope (which was a rope made out of rubber bands that involved increasingly complex feats with the rope at ankle, knee, straight arm, waist, underarm and top of head heights)
Jacks
Chinese Jacks (which were these cool bunches of plastic rings)
Clapping Games
Trading Stickers
Flipping/Tossing Baseball cards...and a couple of other baseball card games

 

[Unhappy Crow]

Between K - 3rd, I would play on the playground. From 4th - 6th, just standing near a wall waiting for the belll to ring to go back inside.

 

[Mray3460]

Three main activities:
1. Telling and listening to stories among my close group of friends.

2. Committing Genocide against the multiple fire ant populations out on the field.

3. Digging "the hole" (This happened one year: a small group of the kids found this part of the large recess field, under a shady tree, with soft, dry dirt, and started digging. The next day, more kids saw what they were doing and joined in. Apparently, after that, people in the other recess (for the older kids) picked up on it and started to dig. Eventually, all of the students in grades 1-3 dug during their recess, with about half the fourth grade, and a fourth of the fifth grade digging during THEIR recess. By Christmas break, we'd worked out a system of ranks and foremen [My position was a team leader, of one of twelve teams of twenty in the grade 1-3 set] in charge of organizing who went where and dug where, and who would take the shared plastic buckets smuggled into school and dump the dirt in the nearby creek, handing the day's plans and progress reports off to the next set of foremen when recess ended, as well as getting down and digging ourselves once everyone else was assigned for the day [The teams rotated positions and sections around the hole]. By the end of the school year, we'd left a hole in the play-field twenty-five feet [7.62 meters] in diameter and eight feet [2.44 meters] deep at its lowest point...then the school filled it in during the summer break, and it was never spoken of again.)

 

[MetroidNut]

I brought a Gameboy and sat under the jungle gym, playing Metroid. Was I a loser, or was I incredibly awesome? I'm still not sure.

 

[Lieju]

Kahden tulen välissä was the most common one. I have no idea what it's called in English, or if there is such a thing, but it's similar to dodgeball, but with two teams and a field with two squares. We had two of those fields painted on the school yard.

Also Piste, there is a similar game in the US, but I don't know what it's called. In it there would be a place where the first seeker would count, like in hide-and-seek, and the others would hide. Then the seeker would try to find the others and then run to the starting point and call their name, so they'd lose. The others would try to run to the point and call their own "piste" when the seeker was elsewhere, and doing so would be safe.

It was kinda given that the whole glass would take part, which is probably the only reason I was accepted. And even still, when the teams were made I always got picked last, and indeed the teams would fight over who would have to take me. It wasn't that I was horrible at it, but I was bullied a lot, so no-one wanted to give an impression they liked me, and picking someone always meant they were your buddies.

 

[A Raging Emo]

FUCKING TAG!!1!one!