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Outdoor games you played as a kid

Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:02 pm
Posted by contraryman
Earth
Member since Dec 2007
2023 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:02 pm
Was explaining to the wife and kids (no pics) what it was like to play outdoor games when I was a kid. Late 70s early 80s. Remembering a few besides flag football and kick the can. What do you have?
Posted by fightin tigers
Downtown Prairieville
Member since Mar 2008
76343 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:03 pm to
Smear the...uh...other guy.
Posted by lsubatman1
Member since Feb 2009
1771 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:03 pm to
Smear the queer. I hear it's frowned upon these days.
Posted by HailToTheChiz
Back in Auburn
Member since Aug 2010
53768 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:03 pm to
Cops and robbers
Cowboys and Indians
Capture the flag
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
79224 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:04 pm to
Swordfighting.

Used garbage can lids as shields and Wiffle bats as swords.
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
25440 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:04 pm to
Cowboys and Outlaws. Army. Baseball. Football. Basketball. Farming......yes, I had all the toy tractors and used to spend hours creating my farm in the dirt.
Posted by fightin tigers
Downtown Prairieville
Member since Mar 2008
76343 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:04 pm to
Used to play a game where we knocked on doors then ran. The name slips my mind.
Posted by MoarKilometers
Member since Apr 2015
20589 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:04 pm to
Lawn darts
Posted by tkeefer
TX
Member since Apr 2004
1121 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:06 pm to
Posted by NewIberiaHaircut
Lafayette
Member since May 2013
12320 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:06 pm to
Capture the flag in the cane fields. Once we got older this evolved into capture the flag on 4 wheelers and go karts with paintball guns.

Murder in the dark was a good one as well.
Posted by rsbd
banks of the Mississippi
Member since Jan 2007
23289 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:07 pm to
Build ramps and jump our bikes. See who could get the highest and furthest without dying
Posted by JCinBAMA
North of Huntsville
Member since Oct 2009
18321 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:08 pm to
BB guns fights
snipe hunting
Posted by Clark14
Earth
Member since Dec 2014
26207 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:08 pm to
Slingshot wars,water balloon fights,football,basketball,baseball,etc.

We stayed outside all day.
Posted by Slidellproud
Madisonville
Member since Mar 2014
441 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:09 pm to
Four square
Posted by yankeeundercover
Buffalo, NY
Member since Jan 2010
36419 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:09 pm to
Ghost in the graveyard

...and Jarts
Posted by OKellsBells
USA
Member since Dec 2016
5264 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:10 pm to
Kickball
Croquet
Horse shoes
Ghost in the grave yard
Tetherball
Frisbee
Climb trees
This post was edited on 3/21/20 at 6:11 pm
Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
11230 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:10 pm to
Hide and Seek. Still have a scar on one knee for going over a weedy fence and finding out the hard way that it was barbed wire. Limited by which blocks you could hide in.

More civilized: badminton croquet not to mention damming up creeks and seeing if the creeks would survive the next rain.

Archery (no crossbows)
Posted by Stevo
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2004
12347 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:11 pm to
sharks and minnows
marco polo
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
296788 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:12 pm to
Firecrackers vs Leto buildings and plastic army men
catching fireflies
Ramp jumping
Jumping off of roofs.
Diirt cold fights

Endless baseball, basketball, and football.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
296788 posts
Posted on 3/21/20 at 6:13 pm to
quote:

See who could get the highest and furthest without dying


I still have scars from this.
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