What were your typical elementary school recess activities?

[LongAndShort]

Cops and Robbers (I was always a cop), 44 Winks (I think that's what we called it), Bull Rush (the non-contact form - we were young and there were teachers watching), stuck in the mud, soccer (we still called it soccer back then).

There were other things going on, but that was the stuff I'd get involved in.

 

[The Gnome Queen]

Go back in time for a bit, imagine sitting back in your 4th grade classroom. Your teacher is teaching you to divide big numbers.(tremors)
Your teacher glances at the clock and says "it looks like it's time for recess"

You are herded out of the classroom and out the door into sheer happiness. Try and remember some of little kid pastimes.

For me it was all about 4 square my later years in elementary school. As a little 1st or 2nd grader it was something different just about every day.

So what did you do during recess as lad or lass?

The swings.. I loved them.

Also 4 Square, jump rope and tetherball.

 

[Thimblefoot]

Spent my playtime playing tig with other kids, playing football with other kids, and staring at a girl I had a crush on.

EDIT: Oh, and playing with Bayblades, no idea what we saw as fun in those things.

 

[Snork Maiden]

Football for the most part, although by our final year we spent a lot of time playing cards as well.

 

[drbarno]

Played pokemon outside.

There was not a lot of room on the playground, the majority taken up by the people that wanted to play football.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Tormenting the new kid; If I could time-travel, I would beat my younger self into a sentient mass of contusions and begging.

That, or the football variant of squash.

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

Football (soccer).
Followed by more Football.
After that?

...more Football.

 

[AlkalineGamer]

Bulldog, tag and occasionally football.

 

[Extragorey]

...Standing around talking to friends.
Before that, playing four-square with a tennis ball.
Before that, winning other people's marbles after beating them at a game of marbles that was played on manhole covers. Ah, those were the days...
And before that, trading pokemon cards.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Mine was literally: run out of the class.

In what would seem one of the weirdest activties for a bunch of 8-10 yo's, me and four or five other boys would leg it out of the door, then race around the main school building, to the far end of the playground, then back to the nearest part of the building, and then back to the far wall. Always a fairly even contest (I typically came third or fourth, but only by a few seconds).

That and a game called 'runouts'... so yeah, a lot of running.

 

[Julianking93]

Either sitting by myself in the corner or in the library.

Never was one for sports or really any sort of activity most people find appropriate for kids at that age so I just kept to myself mostly.

 

[Antari]

Firstly we weren't herded out the door, we fled like a pack of rats on fire. We played Tag, Kickball, Beat up the new Kid, Soccer, when it was snowing hockey, and slide/roll/fall down the nearest steep hill. Generally if it was recess whatever trouble we could get into we'd get into. A far cry from today's schools I can tell you ...

 

[AngryMongoose]

Depends, what year is 4th grade? Bulldog, IT, manhunt, and making stupid jokes for 20 minutes I guess.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

Football!

Or basketball.

But mostly football. Our field was way to fucking huge though. We had a 200 yard long breakaway zone and 100 yard wide field. Shit got intense. It was crazy (this was years ago, and I may be unconsciously exaggerating on the size of the field, but I know for a fact it was huge).

EDIT: Or whatever card game was popular.

 

[Crowser]

Wallball, Kickball, Soccer, Basketball, Tetherball, 4square... pretty much anything with a ball.
Also:
Tag (until it was banned in 5th grade when my freind broke his jaw playing)
Capture the hat... kind of... we didn't actually call it that. There would be 2 teams and one person on each team would have a hat, the other team had to get the hat while protecting theirs. This shit went on for weeks sometimes.
And swings. The swings were badass.

 

[neoontime]

Soccer (Football).
Followed by more Soccer.
After that?

...more Soccer.
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Oh yeah there was also basketball and think there was a three month phase were people played marbles. Oh and people also played yu gi oh once. Tag around first grade but I was still a slow kid.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Throwing Cards. WWF Wrestling Collector Cards to be exact.At one point i won massive amounts of cards from my classmates, then i lost em all but my Macho Man card.Thats life.

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Oh and Pogs

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And of course annoying girls , well exept one of them...or well, i did too but with different intentions.

Tag (until it was banned in 5th grade when my freind broke his jaw playing)

What a lame school. Thats what happens when children play. No one would have reacted with more than "oh poor boy, get well soon" in my day/school. But if i was a kid now we wouldnt be allowed to play in the woods on our own the whole day, hitting us with "swords" and "spears" =sticks coming back with new bruises , scratches and cuts each day.No wonder every second kid is allergic to everything now.

 

[JackWestJr]

Probably something along the lines of talking 'bout video games, going into out-of-bounds areas, occasional detention, any sport: soccer, bullrush, handball ('4 square'), bull rush, go 2 library, screw with the schools computers (Control + Alt + Down) typical youngster stuff lol

 

[thylasos]

Football, every day. British Bulldog, sometimes.