What was your favorite activity during outdoor recess? Mine was jumping rope. What was yours?
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until the school banned it from being played…but we did anyway.
playground equipment. I wish they did. Bummer.
are different now.
have one at our school, but the local playground had one. I didn't get sick, but went flying off in the gravel. yes, gravel.
Jump rope, especially double Dutch, tether ball, and four square. Wow, That's a trip down memory lane for this baby boomer.
tag game.
A couple of classmates would sneak down to the creek which was close to the playground. We’d always get in trouble and our teacher would make us sit in the hallway for the rest of the day. 
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what we call "dog pile" around here. Mostly the boys played it. Thank you very much for sharing with us.
It was a pole with six long chains & some kind of metal contraption at the end that kids hung onto. Then we'd run & circle round & round. It was way more fun than it sounds. 
Ours was over blacktop, like all our equipment was. We had two playing fields; one was gravel & one was grass.
playground at the top of the Double Dip, that we used for sledding. Also, there was no Adult Supervision. I remember the boys played more rough games then the girls. But it was, what it was. Sorry to say.
Perpetual Guilt. Thinking about it . that was very dangerous.
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Also do you remember singing these little songs as a rope swinger?
Which one will I marry!"
I always purposefully stumbled on Paul. It didn't work though. 
We all tried to swing as high as possible. Sometimes we would stand on the swing. They were flat hard seats, not the rubber strap kind. I fell off mine once and got gravel in my knee and was sent to the nurse’s office. Back then girls had to wear dresses to school. Hardly any girls would play on the jungle gym because of the wearing dresses thing. The boys would stand on the ground below and look up your dress and make comments if you did. What a dumb rule! One of many dumb rules for girls only back then. Our school chose a different student every morning raise the flag. But it always had to be a boy. Girls weren’t allowed to raise the flag. I don’t know why. Oh, don’t get me started…..
church. but our neighborhood playground was fully equipped with equipment. Swings were my favorite. We would swing really high and jump off into the gravel. Yes, I remember the boys putting the flag up , never girls. But as it was after school activity , I could wear my shorts and use the jungle gym and the merry go round.
engaged in not getting beat up by the bigger kids. And every kid was literally bigger than me
they grew out of their mean ways or stayed the same bullies they were in their younger days.
parking lot to get out their energy..
Teacher let me use the school's parachute. There are all kinds of activities to do with it.
catching 90% of the missed basketball shots.
Jeopardy question.