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- death square
- Entered verbatim - I couldn't improve on this: A complex, subtle and violent game which emerged in Ysgol Morgan Llwyd school in Wrexham, Wales in the late eighties. It evolved from a game More…
- decker
- Much like British Bulldog but much more violent. preferably played past a tree with extensive roots. See also: british bulldog. =circa 2000, UK (NI)
- dobby
- (1) variation of tag/tig etc complete with "dobby-off-ground" (safe on a wall) and "dobby scarecrow" (anyone captured had to stand arms out - legs apart) (2) The house-elf that More…
- dodgeball
- Very much like Maimball. Another version was called Dutch Cricket which was much the same, played indoors & using a tennis ball & rounders bats. =circa 1980's, UK (SW)
- doors
- Doors was basically a football game played with a tennis ball between two players. The goals were two doors in the playground conveniently located opposite each other and the right More…
- double dutch
- (1) variation on skipping rope in which two turners held two ropes flying in opposite directions for one or more jumpers. Rhymes were generally sung and occasionally required the jumpers More…
- down by the river
- This hand game has been popular in the U.S. for at least a couple of generations. These versions of it were found in Tennessee. It was played in a circle. Everyone would stand so that More…
- duck-duck-goose game
- All children (or whoever) sit in a circle. One person walks around the circle, tapping each individual on the head and saying "duck.". Suddenly, the person taps one person and says More…
- dungeons
- Game played at certain north western schools in Melbourne, Australia where there would be two teams, a boy's team and a girl's team. What would happen was one team would run away, and the More…
- dustmans knock
- A more 'advanced' form of postmans knock in which more physical contant is the norm. In this version a girl or boy is chosen to go hide in a cupboard (or bedroom). Another boy or girl is More…
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