Childhood Games You Hated

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Tag was one of my favorites, only because I was a fast runner. I could run like the wind blew, and I didn't have to worry about pissing off teamates--- I was my own boss. I hated team sports that required throwing/kicking/hitting/catching balls because I couldn't do any of that stuff. Dodge ball was only ok because I could run fast and therefore dodge the ball pretty well. I liked hide and seek. Red Rover did hurt your arms, but we didn't do that one much. I liked races (running) because I could actually DO that.

"Red rover, Red Rover, bring this puppy dog over." Or something very similar is usualy said by the kids who are lined up in a row, to signal the other child that it's time to run into the line and to the other side.

Red Rover is a risky little game where a line of kids holds each others' hands. Another child runs up into the other kids' arms and tries to break the bond between the hands, then runs past the row of kids. If they don't get through, someone might get hurt due to the force of the impact. When I was in girls scouts, injuries happened repeatidly during a yearly camp out at a lake called Navajo Lake, becasue of this very game. After one girl got injured enough that she had to leave, the rule was put up that no was was alowed to play it again and that groups of children needed more supervision.

I hated duck duck goose to, because I felt too old for it a couple of times. The running around on a tight circle to, that was annoying. Musical chairs, even more annoying. Grab the Tag was ok, but I would have felt better if my peers hadn't treated me like someone who was diseased. Granted I was often the last kid with the tag, but bieng hated stinks. Of course I didn't feel any vicory from it. Who would after "Your too ugly!" or something like that? Hee hee

i love dodgeball ! !! !! ! and hide and seek but i hate musical chairs ...anyone know game named black pete??? ilove that:D:D:D:D

i was the same. team sports were the worst.

So did IAny game that involved another person
Especially team games
And blind man's buff, or whatever it was called. Someone tried to get me to play that once, put the blindfold on me and i had a panic attack.

I hated playing imaginary games with other kids, but I loved my own imaginary games for one player .

Hehehe, me too.

I hated anything where the kids picked teams. No one ever wanted me, because I suck.

Also despised anything imaginary. I'd just dress my barbies up all cool, because I loved fashion then just as much as I do now. But past that, like, "LETS PLAY HOUSE WITH THEM OR GO TO THE MALL"... the thought was just so boring.

I LIKED What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf? Haha! Mother, May I? was similar but not as fun.

I remember always dreading playing games like "Car Lot" in gym class in elementary school (it's a tagging type of game). Really, I didn't like most of those games. Or gym class. I don't mind physical activity, just not around a bunch of my peers.

The one game I remember LOVING was Hide and Go Seek. Go figure. :p

Tag- because I'm slow
Roleplay games(only ones where people always make their character, creature or powers more powerful than anyone else)
Octopus(where somebody has to shout a letter and everyone who's letter begin with their name- and they always choose B seeing as I'm the only one that with a name beginning with B)

Dodgeball-There were always some very big, very mean kids who cheated and hit above the waist, which is against the rules.

I hated all regimented sports. I loved physical activities I could do on my own such as walking, bike riding and playing on regular playground equipment. I used to be a fast runner until a physical education teacher took all the fun out of it for me. Then I lost interest and finished last in every race.

I can't remember any games I really hated as a little kid. Even the ones I sucked at (ie, monkey bars), I still liked. I loved the jungle gym in elementary school; I liked climbing to the top and staying there for most (if not all) of the alloted recess time.

I actually liked Red Rover, although in retrospect this was probably because it was a game where I didn't have to do anything but was still sort of included. I can't remember being called over (I probably was sometimes, but I don't recall), and there were very few times where people would try to break through the section of the line I was in (which, in more retrospect, probably had more to do with my size (99% tile for height until... 10 or something) than with anything else). They banned it pretty quick though; too "dangerous".

I did like imaginary games at a fairly young age, although I remember being fairly organizational about them (I'd lay down rules, settings, ect. beforehand). I ended up hating them at a later age (12ish, I think); by that time, it had been quite a long time since I had last played, and I was uncomfortable with the girl who started it. I tried at first to keep with a friend (the last of the trio that more or less fostered me through my first few years here; the other two moved by that point), but it didn't work.

I did hate touch football from the beginning (I don't understand football at all); I didn't like basketball after a year or so (I didn't hate it until later); in reality, I hate most sports in general now (if I have to play them; if others wish to, I don't care, that's up to them. Just leave me out). I'm really awful at most sports anyway (partly because if you toss a ball at me, I'm going to stand to one side and watch it hit the floor, and partly because my coordination sucks to begin with); if it involves hitting anything with a racket, I simply cannot do it.

I only liked the made up games I played with my younger brother. We were really imaginative and came up with fun games. Most of the indoor games we played got on our parents nerves though.

Liked Line Tag,Hide and Seek,wasn't fond of anything else.

Hated them all - every last one of them.

When teams got picked I was always last.

I was forced to play competitive soccer when I was eight, and was always left at the sideline because while they had to put me on the team, they didn't have to let me play (and I was a right disaster on the few occasions when they put me on the field because they felt they occasionally had to). Funny thing was that the team I was on won the local championships, and I got to go to the special father/son dinner that they had for the victory. Except that my father didn't come, so I was forced to spend a couple of hours sitting in a room full of fathers+sons by myself, being looked at sidelong because I was attending a dinner that was celebrating a victory that I hadn't been a part of. Ouch. That was a bad night.

Later I was forced to go to "badminton sessions" one night a week - I was labeled as the charity case that would get paired up with the worst players, and even they were told to go easy on me. Yet another opportunity to look foolish in public, particularly when you're getting beaten by a visibly mentally-handicapped child. My disability was invisible, so I was just treated poorly.

One time in particular I inadvertently signed up for a "sport day" in my grade school, thinking that I was being very clever and avoiding class by doing something gym related (though I was useless in gym, I hated class far more). I didn't understand until the day that *everyone* had class off, and that the kids who signed up had to participate as the *spectacle* at this spectator event. So I got to come in last after literally collapsing in front of the entire school. There was no end to the subsequent abuse I got for that.

Personally, I've never understood anyone's interest in professional sport, though lately I've come to suspect that my fundamental inability to empathize is probably why I don't get sucked into those games - I've got no connection to the players and can't visualize myself in their place the way so many mainstream folks seem to, and while I can see the appeal of pro sports to people who are statistics-obsessed, that's just not my gig.

Oh, and all of the school yard "sports" like tag, red rover and dodgeball? I was certainly never invited to play, and was usually too busy trying to avoid being beaten up to get anywhere near.

Sorry for the rant, but thirty years later it still makes me a little crazy to think about it.

Nick