Mumblety-peg

Mumblety-peg (also known as mumbley-peg, mumblepeg, mumble-the-peg, mumbledepeg or mumble-de-peg) is an old outdoorgame played by children using pocketknives. The term "Mumblety-peg" came from the practice of putting a peg of about 2 or 3 inches into the ground. The loser of the game had to take it out with his teeth. Mumbletypeg was very popular as a schoolyard game in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, but with increased concern over child safety the game has declined in popularity. Mark Twain's book Tom Sawyer, Detective...

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Red Rover

Red Rover (also known as Bullrush, Forcing the City Gates and Octopus Tag) is an outdoorgame played primarily by children on playgrounds. This 19th century children's group game (requiring around 10 or more players total) is thought to have originated in Britain and then spread to Australia, Canada and the United States.GameThe game is played between two imaginary lines, usually around thirty feet apart. Each team lines up along one of these lines, and the game starts when the first team (usually called the "East" or "South" team, although this...

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2011 NHL Heritage Classic

The 2011 NHL Heritage Classic is a scheduled outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game that will pit the Montreal Canadiens against the Calgary Flames at McMahon Stadium, located on the campus of the University of Calgary inCalgary, Alberta, Canada. The game is scheduled for February 20, 2011 at 4:00PMMST, and will be the second outdoor game of the 2010–11 NHL season, following theWinter Classic. The game's title sponsor is Tim Hortons.[1] As part of the weekend festivities for the Classic, the Abbotsford Heat will host the Oklahoma...

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Jegichagi

Jegichagi is a Korean traditional outdoor game. It requires the use of people's foot and Jegi, an object used to play jegichagi. Jegi looks like a badminton shuttlecock, which is made of a smallcoin (quarter size), paper, or cloth. In Korea, children usually play alone or with friends in winter seasons, especially on Lunar New Year. Briefly explaining the rules, the player kicks a jegi up in the air and keeps on kicking to prevent from falling to the ground. In a one-to-one game, a player with the most number of consecutive kicks wins. In a group...

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Polish Horseshoes

Polish Horseshoes (also called Spanish Horseshoes) is an outdoor game played between two teams of two people using a Frisbee, two glass bottles, and stakes nailed into the ground (traditionally, the stake is a ski pole, but other similar items may be used). The game is played by the players taking turns throwing a Frisbee at a glass bottle that rests on top of the stakes in the ground. The two stakes are placed anywhere between 20 to 40 ft (6.1 to 12 m) apart.PlayPolish Horseshoes is played in almost the same style as regular horseshoes. The game...

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NBA outdoor games

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOnly three National Basketball Association (NBA) games have ever been played outdoors. The first outdoor game was played between thePhoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks on September 24, 1972 on a baseball park in San Juan, Puerto Rico during that year's preseason. The Suns defeated the Bucks, 116–103.[1]The NBA has not scheduled another outdoor game after that, citing weather as a major obstacle.[2] In 2008, the Phoenix Suns planned to play a preseason game outdoors at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian...

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Tennikoit

Tennikoit is an outdoor game which was started in India in the early 1960s. Four decades since its inception, the game has risen from district levels to international levels with nearly 20 countries all over the world competing for the crown.History and DescriptionTennikoit is one of the obscure sports which almost faced extinction. However the sport received timely attention and it survived and flourished. Even though exact records are not available to document the place and date of birth of Tennikoit, its largely believed that South India is...

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