action
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a movement that goes with a children’s song
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a children’s game in which one player has their eyes covered with a blindfold and tries to catch the others
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a game in which children hold a piece of string around their hands and make patterns by moving their fingers through the string
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a game played especially by children in which the winner is the person who continues doing something dangerous the longest
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a game played by children standing in a circle using a large rubber ball that one child throws at another, who tries to avoid being hit
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the children’s game of putting on different clothes and pretending to be someone else
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a children’s game in which one player lets the other players hide, and then tries to find them
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a children’s game that involves jumping on a set of squares that you draw on the ground
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a children’s game in which players try to guess what object someone is thinking of by knowing the first letter of it. The game begins by one player saying ‘I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with...’.
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a children’s game in which you pick up small objects after you have bounced a ball and before you catch it again
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a children’s game in which one child bends down so that another child can jump over them
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a game played by children in which they roll small coloured glass balls called marbles on the ground
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a children’s game in which players walk round a row of chairs and quickly sit down when the music stops. There is one less chair than there are people, and the person who does not get a chair leaves the game. This continues until there is only one person left.
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a game that you play to entertain a baby or small child, in which you cover your face with your hands or hide behind something, then suddenly show your face, saying ‘peekaboo’
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a children’s game in which two people throw a ball to each other and a third person stands between them and tries to catch it
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a race, especially for children, in which you put your legs inside a large cloth bag and move by jumping
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