what fun did you had as a kid

[lumberjim]

We played capture the flag, tackle football, built tree forts, swam in Kay's pond.... put furniture polish in my moms linoleum kitchen floor and skated. ... Lots of fun times.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

put furniture polish in my moms linoleum kitchen floor and skated. ... .

That sounds hilarious good fun.

[DanaC]

Oh I forgot to add British Bulldog!

British bulldogs (often the singular British bulldog, also octopus, seaweed, bullies, bullrush or simply bulldogs) is a tag-based game, of which red rover and cocky laura are descendants.
It is played mainly in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other Commonwealth countries by children at school. It was originated in Great Britain.[citation needed] The game is also known to have been played, often on asphalt recess yards, by schoolchildren in Rhode Island in the 1960s, under the name "cock-a-rooster." The game is characterised by its physicality often being regarded as violent leading it to be banned from many schools, although this trend is now being reversed.[1]
The play area is usually a large hall or large area of a playing field, though there are no definition of the size of the pitch nor the number of players as long as there is enough space for the players to manoeuvre and enough players to have fun.
Most commonly one or two players – though this number may be higher in large spaces – are selected to play the parts of the "bulldogs". The bulldogs stand in the middle of the play area. All remaining players stand at one end of the area (home). The aim of the game is to run from one end of the field of play to the other, without being caught by the bulldogs. When a player is caught, they become a bulldog themselves. The winner is the last player or players 'free'.

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

[BigV]

It's even better with butter.

/voice of experience

[Clodfobble]

British Bulldog sounds a lot like a game we used to play in the pool called "Alligator." Instead of a circle, the alligator was on one wall of the pool, the fish were on the other, and the fish would attempt to swim across to safety at the other wall. Anyone tagged became an additional alligator.

[Sundae]

We used to play both British Bulldog and Red Rover on a hard playground.
Skinned knees and elbows were common, but the games weren't banned until Sammy Brown dislocated her shoulder. Spoilsport.

[DanaC]

oh.....oh! Red Rover...the name is familiar but I can't remember what it was...



I used to love Mr Wolf That was a great game.

[Sundae]

Two lines of children hold hands at either end of the playground.
They take it in turns to chant, choosing someone from the other side to try to break through their linked hands.

"Red Rover, Red Rover, we call Cherry over"

It's a game of strategy as well as brute force. The calling team has to agree who to call. Too strong and they might break through, and opponents who get through go back to their own team. Too weak and they become a weak link in their new team.

And the person called discusses with his or her team where the line is most vulnerable.

I was good at Red Rover because I committed 100%.
I was never Last Man Standing, that went to the bigger boys, but I was fast and ruthless.
And once I was on the opposing team you'd have had to break my bones to break my grip, and even the boys knew that.

[ZenGum]

Most commonly one or two players – though this number may be higher in large spaces – are selected to play the parts of the "bulldogs". The bulldogs stand in the middle of the play area. All remaining players stand at one end of the area (home). The aim of the game is to run from one end of the field of play to the other, without being caught by the bulldogs. When a player is caught, they become a bulldog themselves. The winner is the last player or players 'free'.

If being caught by "it" only required a tag or touch, we would call this Red Rover.

To count as British Bulldog, catching someone required bringing them to ground and forcing their head onto the ground in the manner of scoring a try in Rugby.

We have more grass playing fields than post-Thatcher Britain.

[Flint]

Staging realistic battle scenes, blowing up GI Joes with firecrakers, in the sand-bed.

Making extreme Hot Wheels ramps that started way up on the bed and went all the way to the floor.

Building Transformers out of Legos.