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Tag (game), the Glossary

Tag (also called chase, tig, it, tiggy, tips, tick, on-on and tip) is a playground game involving one or more players chasing other players in an attempt to "tag" and mark them out of play, typically by touching with a hand.^[1]

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Outdoor games
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A. M. Burrage

Alfred McLelland Burrage (1889–1956) was a British writer.

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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Asian Games

The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every fourth year among athletes from all over Asia.

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Assassin (game)

Assassin (also Killer) is a live-action game in which players try to eliminate one another using mock weapons, in an effort to become the last surviving player.

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Atya patya

Atya patya (Hindi: आट्यापाट्या) is a traditional South Asian tag sport played by two sides of nine players. Tag (game) and Atya patya are tag variants.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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In Northern America, a '''football''' (also called a pigskin) refers to a ball, roughly in the form of a prolate spheroid, used in the context of playing gridiron football.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Baseball5

Baseball5 (B5) is an internationally played safe haven game with many of the same rules as baseball and softball, which is governed alongside those sports by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).

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Bat-and-ball games

Bat-and-ball games (or safe haven games) are field games played by two opposing teams.

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Bengali traditional games

Bengali traditional games are traditional games that are played in rural parts of the historical region of Bengal (present-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal).

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Blindfold

A blindfold (from Middle English blindfellen) is a garment, usually of cloth, tied to one's head to cover the eyes to disable the wearer's sight.

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Bride kidnapping

Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice in which a man abducts and rapes the woman he wishes to marry.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Corps of Discovery

The Corps of Discovery was a specially established unit of the United States Army which formed the nucleus of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that took place between May 1804 and September 1806.

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Counting-out game

A counting-out game or counting-out rhyme is a simple method of 'randomly' selecting a person from a group, often used by children for the purpose of playing another game.

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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" – which can be spelled a number of ways – is a children's counting-out rhyme, used to select a person in games such as tag, or for selecting various other things.

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Erinna

Erinna (Ἤριννα) was an ancient Greek poet.

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Exponential growth

Exponential growth is a process that increases quantity over time at an ever-increasing rate.

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Flag football is a variant of gridiron football (American football or Canadian football depending on location) where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down.

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Flashlight

A flashlight (US English) or electric torch (Commonwealth English), usually shortened to torch, is a portable hand-held electric lamp.

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Herd immunity

Herd immunity (also called herd effect, community immunity, population immunity, or mass immunity) is a form of indirect protection that applies only to contagious diseases.

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Hide-and-seek

Hide-and-seek (sometimes known as hide-and-go-seek) is a popular children's game in which at least two players (usually at least three) conceal themselves in a set environment, to be found by one or more seekers. Tag (game) and hide-and-seek are children's games and Outdoor games.

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History of India

Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.

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Indus Valley Civilisation

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.

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Kabaddi

Kabaddi is a contact team sport played between two teams of seven players, originating in ancient India. Tag (game) and Kabaddi are tag variants.

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Kho kho

Kho kho is a traditional South Asian sport that dates to ancient India. Tag (game) and kho kho are tag variants.

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Knocking on wood

Knocking on wood (also phrased touching wood or touch wood) is an apotropaic tradition of literally touching, tapping, or knocking on wood, or merely stating that one is doing or intending to do so, in order to avoid "tempting fate" after making a favorable prediction or boast, or a declaration concerning one's own death or another unfavorable situation.

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Lake

A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.

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Langdi (sport)

Langdi is a traditional South Asian field sport which combines elements of tag and hopscotch. Tag (game) and Langdi (sport) are tag variants.

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List of children's games

This is a list of games that are played by children. Tag (game) and list of children's games are children's games.

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Lunch lady

Lunch lady, in Canada and the US, is a term for a person who cooks and serves food in a school cafeteria.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Naṟṟiṇai

Natrinai (நற்றிணை meaning excellent tinai), is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the first of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature.

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Nerf Blaster

A Nerf Blaster is a toy gun made by Hasbro that fires foam darts, arrows, discs, or foam balls.

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Nez Perce

The Nez Perce (autonym in Nez Perce language: nimíipuu, meaning "we, the people") are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who still live on a fraction of the lands on the southeastern Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest.

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North West England

North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.

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Observation

Observation in the natural sciences is an act or instance of noticing or perceiving and the acquisition of information from a primary source.

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Ocean

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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Ostracinda

Ostracinda or Ostrakinda (ὀστρακίνδα) was an ancient Greek game for boys, similar to modern Tag (game).

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Pandya dynasty

The Pandyan dynasty, also referred to as the Pandyas of Madurai, was an ancient Tamil dynasty of South India, and among the four great kingdoms of Tamilakam, the other three being the Pallavas, the Cholas and the Cheras.

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Parkour

Parkour is an athletic training discipline or sport in which practitioners (called traceurs) attempt to get from one point to another in the fastest and most efficient way possible, without assisting equipment and often while performing feats of acrobatics.

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Pro Kabaddi League

Pro Kabaddi League (also known as Vivo Pro Kabbadi for sponsorship reasons) or abbreviated to PKL is an Indian men's professional Kabaddi league.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Rock paper scissors

Rock paper scissors (also known by several other names and word orders, see § Names) is an intransitive hand game, usually played between two people, in which each player simultaneously forms one of three shapes with an outstretched hand. Tag (game) and Rock paper scissors are children's games.

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Running

Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion by which humans and other animals move rapidly on foot.

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Saa Boo Three

Saa-boo-Three is an Indian game of toss used to determine the order of playing in any sport, particularly in singles competitions involving three or more players.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Sea

A sea is a large body of salty water.

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Sigmoid function

A sigmoid function is any mathematical function whose graph has a characteristic S-shaped or sigmoid curve.

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Softball

Softball is a popular variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball on a smaller field and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) permitted.

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Sound localization

Sound localization is a listener's ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound in direction and distance.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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South Asian diaspora

The South Asian diaspora, also known as the Desi diaspora, is the group of people whose ancestral origins lie in South Asia, but who live outside the region.

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South Asian Games

The South Asian Games (SAG or SA Games), formerly known as the South Asian Federation Games (SAFG or SAF Games), is a quadrennial multi-sport event held among the athletes from South Asia.

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Southern England

Southern England, also known as the South of England or the South, is a sub-national part of England with cultural, economic and political differences from both the Midlands and the North.

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Swimming

Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival.

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Swimming pool

A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities.

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Most forms of football have a move known as a tackle.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Touch rugby

Touch rugby refers to games derived from rugby football in which players do not tackle each other but instead touch their opponents using their hands on any part of the body, clothing, or the ball.

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Treading water

Treading water or water treading is what a swimmer can do while in a vertical position to keep their head above the surface of the water, while not providing sufficient directional thrust to overcome inertia and propel the swimmer in any specific direction.

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Truce term

A truce term is a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, such as tag or its variants.

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Ultimate Kho Kho

Ultimate Kho Kho (UKK) is an Indian franchise-based kho-kho league started in 2022.

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Variations of baseball

In sports, the term diamond sports refers to recreational (often scaled down) variants of baseball, a bat-and-ball sport.

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World Chase Tag

World Chase Tag is an international championship for competitive parkour involving the game of tag. Tag (game) and World Chase Tag are tag variants.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire is an area of Northern England which was historically a county.

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2022 Ultimate Kho Kho

The 2022 season of Ultimate Kho Kho (UKK) was the inaugural season which began August 14, 2022 and ended September 4, 2022.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(game)

Also known as Ball tag, Banana tag, Build Ups, Build-ups, Buildups, Chain tag, Chase game, Chasey, Chasing game, Cross tag, Crush the Carrier, Deadly sock, Dobby (game), Family Tig, Flashlight tag, Freeze Tag, Game of tag, Ghost in the graveyard, Gool (game), Groundies, Hang tag, Kiss chase, Not it, Octopus Tag, Onigokko, Pakada-pakadi, Release (tag game), River or mountain (game), Smear the queer, Sock tag, Squat tag, Stuck in the mud, TV tag, Tag competitions, Tag game, Tag sports, Tag, You're It, Team tag, Turn tag, Urban tag, Variations of tag.

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Tag (game), the Glossary

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See also

Outdoor games

Pursuit–evasion

Street games

Tag variants

References