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A street game is a sport or game that is played on city streets rather than a prepared field. [1]

45 relations: American handball, Asphalt, Backyard cricket, Baseball, Buck buck, Butts Up, Cat's cradle, Child, Children's street culture, Chinese handball, Clapping game, Double Dutch (jump rope), Four square, Game, Half-rubber, Héctor Elizondo, Hide-and-seek, Hopscotch, Kick the can, List of traditional children's games, Marble (toy), New York Street Games, One wall paddleball, Parking lot, Patball, Pitch (sports field), Playground, Punchball, Red Rover, Ringolevio, Singing game, Skipping rope, Skully (game), Spaldeen, Sport, Steal the Bacon, Stickball, Stoop ball, Street, Street football, Street hockey, Streetball, String figure, Tag (game), Urban area.

American handball

American handball is a sport in which players use their hands to hit a small rubber ball against a wall such that their opponent cannot do the same without it touching the ground twice.

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Asphalt

Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.

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Backyard cricket

Backyard cricket, street cricket, beach cricket, gully cricket, corridor cricket, deef or garden cricket is an informal ad hoc variant of the game of cricket, played by people of all genders and all ages in gardens, back yards, on the street, in parks, carparks, beaches and any area not specifically intended for the purpose.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.

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Buck buck

Buck buck (also known as Johnny-on-a-Pony, or Johnny-on-the-Pony) is a children's game with several variants.

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Butts Up

Butts Up (A.K.A. "A-Ball", "Asses Up", "Assies' Rehab & Tea", "Balliver Shagnasty's Revenge", "Balls Deep", "Ballsies", "Beartrap", "Blackjack", "Blue Gooch", "Booties Up", "Brandings", "Buju Gay", "Buns Up", "Burn Ball", "Burn", "Butt Ball", "Buttock Blocker", "Chance", "Chinese Suicides", "Electric Booty", "Error", "Fire in the Bum", "Fumble", "Glempner", "Jetters", "Kirby", "Murderball", "No Fear", "Off the Wall", "Peanut Butter", "Pee Pee'd", "Peg", "Red Ace", "Red Ass", "Red Bum", "Red Butt", "Red Out", "Rosies", "Rump Rounders", "Sky Blue", "Slaughterhouse", "Spread", "Sting", "Stitch", "Suicide", or "Wall Ball") is a North American elementary school children's playground game originating in the 1950s or earlier.

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Cat's cradle

Cat's cradle is one of the oldest games in recorded human history, and involves creating various string figures, either individually or by passing a loop of string back and forth between two or more players.

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Child

Biologically, a child (plural: children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty.

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Children's street culture

Children's street culture refers to the cumulative culture created by young children.

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Chinese handball

Chinese handball (known in its 3-or-more-player forms as Ace-King-Queen, King(s), Down the River or Slugs), is a form of American handball popular on the streets of New York City, Philadelphia, and Bridgewater, New Jersey during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s and is still played today, mostly in New York City, Philadelphia, and San Diego.

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Clapping game

A clapping game (or hand game) is a type of usually cooperative (i.e., non-competitive) game which is generally played by two players and involves clapping as a rhythmic accompaniment to a singing game or reciting of a rhyme, often nursery rhymes.

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Double Dutch (jump rope)

Double Dutch is a game in which two long jump ropes turning in opposite directions are jumped by one or more players jumping simultaneously.

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Four square

Four square is a ball game played among four players on a square court divided into quadrants.

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Game

A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.

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Half-rubber

Half-rubber, also known as halfball, is a bat-and-ball game similar to stick ball or baseball.

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Héctor Elizondo

Héctor Elizondo (born December 22, 1936) is an American actor.

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Hide-and-seek

Hide-and-seek, or hide-and-go-seek, is a popular children's game in which any number of players (ideally at least three) conceal themselves in the environment, to be found by one or more seekers.

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Hopscotch

Hopscotch is a children's game that can be played with several players or alone.

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Kick the can

Kick the Can (also known as Kick the Block, Kims Game, Guard the Block, Can Can, 40 40, Pom Pom, Tip the can, and Can up can down) is an outdoor children's game related to tag, hide and seek, and capture the flag played with as few as three to as many as several dozen players.

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List of traditional children's games

This is a list of games that used to be played by children, some of which are still being played today.

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Marble (toy)

A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic or agate.

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New York Street Games

New York Street Games is a 2010 documentary film directed by Matt Levy about children's games played by kids in New York City for centuries.

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One wall paddleball

One wall paddleball is an American ball game that consists of hitting a small rubber ball against a single wall by using paddles.

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Parking lot

A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area that is intended for parking vehicles.

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Patball

Patball is a non-contact competitive ball game played in many forms using one's hands or head to hit the ball against a wall – the objective being to get the succeeding player out.

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Pitch (sports field)

A pitch or a sports ground is an outdoor playing area for various sports.

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Playground

A playground, playpark, or play area is a place specifically designed to enable children to play there.

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Punchball

Punchball is a sport spawned by and similar to baseball, but without a pitcher, catcher, or bat.

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Red Rover

Red rover (also known as forcing the city gates and octopus tag) is a game played primarily by children on playgrounds.

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Ringolevio

Ringolevio (also spelled ringalevio or ring-a-levio) is a children's game that may be played anywhere but which originates in the teeming streets of New York City, and is known to have been played there at least as far back as the late 19th century, when it was known as "ring relievo".

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Singing game

A singing game is an activity based on a particular verse or rhyme, usually associated with a set of actions and movements.

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Skipping rope

A skipping rope (British English) or jump rope (American English) is a tool used in the sport of jump rope where one or more participants jump over a rope swung so that it passes under their feet and over their heads.

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Skully (game)

Skully (also called skelly, skellies, skelsy, skellzies, scully, skelzy, loadies, scummy top, tops or caps but widely known as Scummy) is a children's game played on the streets of New York City and other urban areas.

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Spaldeen

A Spalding Hi-Bounce Ball, often called a Spaldeen, is a rubber ball, the size of a tennis ball without the felt.

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Sport

Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.

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Steal the Bacon

Steal the bacon is a tag-based children's game, in which teams try to steal a flag or other item (the "bacon") from the field without being tagged.

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Stickball

Stickball is a street game related to baseball, usually formed as a pick-up game played in large cities in the Northeastern United States, especially New York City and Philadelphia.

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Stoop ball

Stoop ball (also spelled "stoopball") is a game that is played by throwing a ball against a stoop (stairs leading up to a building) on the pavement in front of a building.

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Street

A street is a public thoroughfare (usually paved) in a built environment.

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Street football

The terms street football and street soccer (in United States) encompass a number of informal varieties of association football.

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Street hockey

Street hockey (also known as dek hockey, ball hockey, and in some parts of Canada road hockey) is a variation of the sport of ice hockey where the game is played outdoors on foot, or with inline or roller skates using a ball or puck.

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Streetball

Streetball or street basketball is a variation of basketball typically played on outdoor courts, featuring significantly less formal structure and enforcement of the game's rules.

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String figure

A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people.

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Tag (game)

Tag is a playground game that involves two or more players chasing other players in an attempt to "tag" or touch them, usually with their hands.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_game

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