Your elementary school recess activities

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we played chinese jump rope.

Played on a jungle gym, Tether ball, Merry-go-round, swing set. Kick ball.

I was giving blow jobs in the boys room.

r4 to your adult teachers? sick.

The monkeybars

They closed off the street so we kids could scream, run around, and act a fool.

i went to the restroom and fingered my pussy at recess i was so fuckin horny.

R5 - to the 8th grade boys.

I impressed everyone with my sassitude.

Big merry-go-round fan here

I read.

What's reading? You mean like a text on your phone?

55 year-old here. In our elementary school playground we had three concrete pieces of sewer pipe that you could climb on or into. Insane now when I think about it.

I did Double Dutch jump rope with the girls and was excellent at it. In later elementary years I volunteered to stay in from recess and do bulletin boards for the teachers so I wouldn’t get beat up by the bullies beacause of- well see the first sentence for that answer!

R15 in his later years, along with his former bullies who he converted.

Spin the bottle.

Hid quietly by myself in the corners of the playground so that I wouldn't get harassed or beat up by the bullies.

Though I do remember once or twice going down the slide sitting on the wax paper my lunch had been wrapped in because it really slicked up the slide.

I went to a Catholic elementary school. For some reason, I always spent recess in the rectory.

LOVED four-square, I couldn’t get enough of it. Wish I could remember some of the rules.

The swings was where it was at. Everyone in the know knew that the jungle gym and the slide were for nerds.

Later, some of us would play four-square which was mostly a cover for a dodge-ball like "game" in which we just tried to hurt each other by throwing the ball at each others' heads.

Not sure but it undoubtedly included playing with my dick.

We used to play a somewhat complex game that older kids invented years prior that involved the team that was "up" bounding a rubber ball off the corner of the concrete patio in back of the school and the team that was "in the field" trying to catch it . It had baseball-style rules the focused on how far the ball went on each throw and how quickly the team in the field could get it back home.

There were about 8 of us who played daily (7 boys and a girl, who yes, is now married to a woman) and we had an ongoing game from third to fifth grade at which time we moved up to middle school where there was no recess

We might have become slightly obsessive about it too, I remember having strategy sessions while we were eating lunch before we went outside and actually keeping stats for a while.

Smoked cigarets

I stayed indoors and read, although the teacher kept trying to get me to go outside and run around brainlessly with the other kids.

Yes, I was bullied.

For the first few grades I loved the monkey bars and would play on those the most. Slides were good too. Later I discovered Dodge Ball that we played when the tennis court wasn't being used or in the gym in the winter. Otherwise, I liked 4-Square when we couldn't get space for dodge ball.

My friend Ricky and I would sneak into the janitor's storage room and I'd put my finger up Ricky's butt. We did this pretty much every day. He fucking loved it, and I got very good at different ways of doing it. It's kind of a miracle that we were never caught. I often wonder what ever happened to Ricky, but I think I can guess.

Piss play

We used to play Pin the Tail on the Anus.

Forced my friends to rehearse the musical adaptations of 80s movies I had written, which we would later be allowed to perform for our class.

At my school, recess consisted of practicing male tantric massage.

We'd play Flashdance. I was the main character.

^^^ That was the big movie the year I graduated from high school, but if I was younger I would have loved to have played with you - as long as I could be Jeanie and do her routine on roller skates!

We had several recess areas surrounding our elementary school that you seemed to move to year by year as you moved up (G 1-5). Early it was just a very large concrete square in front of the school with basketball hoops and permanent hop scotch and other games painted onto it. I spent time with my friends drawing with "chalk" (pieces of brick from all the houses being built in the area) on the blank parts of the square. Usually pictures of Wonder Woman or Star Wars. The teachers didn't mind. This was the late 70's, in Plano, TX. By 5th grade we'd moved up to a traditional playground set with monkey bars in the back of the school you had to cross a large bridge over a creek to get to while everyone held hands. The playground set had lots of walkways and ladders and levels made with massive logs and metal bolts, a rope bridge (they would never have this stuff today) where we continued to play Wonder Woman or Star Wars, acting it out. It was all encased in a giant area with gravel on the ground. Next to it were a collection of giant concrete sewer pipes you could crawl in. One year we had to go out there for art class and permanently paint them like giant cans of soda. I worked on the Sprite one but I also remember there being a Tab one, which the teachers (all female, prob all in their 20's) might have had something to do with. The butch boys always played football during recess in the meadow right next to us, but I of course never did that.

Did a shit

We played "It" and freeze tag where you stood still until the game ended. Poison Box was popular. My school had numerous P-box squares painted on the asphalt and concrete grounds. Johnny tackle and scream bloody murder whenever there was a lot of fresh snow. Listening to jokes, riddles, and story jokes told by the usual jokesters . Older kids played ledge against the wall with rubber baseballs. The little kiddies played sing a song while holding hands type stuff, duck duck goose, red rover, leap frog, and did goofy fun stuff such as running around pretending to be an airplane, flipping your eyelids inside out or mastering whatever fairly useless but popular talent of the moment was.

Dodgeball (Dodge 10), kickball, tetherball, 4Square, handball with some big, bouncy cherry-red ball that was used for dodgeball

We did all sorts of activities. In the nicer weather, kickball (we called it kicker) was practically a daily routine. We'd be on the swings, monkey bars, slide, and a couple other things that must have been based on gymnastics equipment (rings and a bar you could do gymnastics-type moves on). Also the merry-go-round. The sixth grade teacher would organize soccer games or kicker games between the classes. He was good at keeping us occupied. In the winter, we'd build snow forts and snowmen, and also play act our favorite shows (The Six Million Dollar Man, Battlestar Gallactica, Charlie's Angels, SWAT--anything 1970s).

I wish we had recess at work. :-)

In fourth grade kick ball was a big deal. For some reason you could have a stand in kick for you. I had the boy who I had a crush on kick for me, he was the lanky son of the fire chief. This earned me a sleep over at my house and seeing him in his pajamas. Nothing happened, but technically that makes him the first boy I slept with.

Dodging bullets in Brooklyn

MONKEY BARS. I don't know why I called it the jungle gym, though I did play on those.

Third grade, we boys would hunch down squatting, take 10 deep breaths, stand up and put a forefinger across our lips and blow as hard as we could. To pass out.

Meth

OMG, R8. Do you suck little boys' assholes with that mouth?

I used to pretend I was glamorous.

I started a prostitution ring and was rolling in lunch money!

I'm pretty sure jungle gym and monkey bars are the same thing.

I'd play hopscotch and climbed on the jungle gym. The black girls would let me Double Dutch with them. For some reason, the other white kids weren't interested in that.

we would go the the library and draw and sketch fashion designs. then we would grade them among each other. my friends told me mine were shit.

Dodge ball was the best. Boys against girls. If you were good your age didn't matter. Otherwise you'd end up on one of the less adept dodgeball games. I think the girls were slightly ahead in games won. Those big Italian girls were scary and they sure knew how to catch a ball. The best was Joanna (I'm aiming for your ugly face, facial brutta)

But then it ended. We had teachers walking slowly around the schoolyard, supervising, and they always had a gaggle of the suck up girls tagging along, walking backwards. One day the gaggle walked right into the elite dodgeball square and bitchy Miss Bell (miss Bell go to HELL) was hit in the face with one of Anna Maria's "BURN A BUM" shots.

Miss Bell was knocked right off her feet, skirt up around her face, everyone seeing her panties covering that jelly fat ass. She always wore lots of make up to cover her zitty face. So someone, might have been me, called out, " can someone wipe off all that grease and makeup from the ball?"

No more dodgeball. After that it was strictly hopscotch.

For those who've never heard the term 'Double Dutch'. Imagine a little white boy putting his tiny little ass into that. I did, and it was wonderfull.

I played on my Chopper with the boys in the field.

R14, we had the concrete sewer pipes too. Great for tag, if you could get manage to climb on top. It was never worth the effort to try tag a kid up there.

But then some asshole started with “house rules” about the pipes being off limits.

My milkshake brought all the boys to the yard.

r50 made me laugh.

Tended the wetbar.

Four Square, Brandy (which is Australian dodge ball pretty much I reckon reading this thread) and there was a fashion for swap cards and pick up jacks (70s) for a while.

Later years I just went to the library and read or helped out cutting plastic book covering.

What I remember is "black top" recess when it was rainy.

Also, the "wall". If you had been bad you'd have standing recess. Face first against the brick wall of the building.

South River Elementary, Marshfield, Massachusetts.

Can you imagine the law suits that would cause today?

This thread was quaint to bring back the forgotten memory of wax paper on slides. WHET to wax paper? It doesn't exist where I live now - Switzerland.

Chinese jump rope

Glue sniffing

I only remember kickball in 5th and 6th. In 3rd and 4th we could roam the grounds or play four square.

We used to swing on these big bushes on the edge of the playground. The teachers just stood around and smoked.

Turned out the bushes were poison oak.

I'm surprised no one mentions playing marbles. That was big at my school.

I also laughed at R50s post.

Shitting

I don't know how I always used to get banged up playing foursquare but I did.

Stood against the brick wall of the school with three girls and gossiped. Tried climbing the monkey bars once and broke my wrist. From then on, I stuck to what I was good at.

Hi Mother Pence/r8!

Whipping a tennis ball against a brick wall was all the rage.

r59 Wax paper is still around. I use when stacking layers of cookies in containers. It's also good for wrapping cheese.

"Stood against the brick wall of the school with three girls and gossiped."

I bet R68 is a guy.

I've been thinking more about r50. That was downright vindictive putting an end to dodgeball 'cause she got knocked onto her ass.

r72 Yes. I hung out with a clique of three girls. For some reason I was never bullied.

What decade was that, r68/74?