There was this one game we occasionally played in elementary that had no name, everyone knew what we were doing that day as soon as we walked into the gym, I’ll just call it islands. The gym teacher would split the class in half and put out 6 wrestling mats. Each team started on their own mats and had to traverse to the second and then the third without touching the ground. The mats were spaced about 50 feet apart and we were given a bunch of random objects like pool noodles, a wheeled dolly, a plunger, a few stepping stone rubber pads, and I’m sure some other stuff I’m not remembering.
The objective was to be the first team to get all members on the third island, if anyone touches the ground you had to go back to the first island. It was mainly a team building exercise but my favorite part was to play the pirate. I would take the dolly and plunger and scoot over to the opposing teams side of the gym and taunt them from my ship as you could not physically interfere with the enemy.
Definitely my favorite game, I still have fond memories of that.
Funny though, I have no stand out memories of an activity I hated.
Calories. Why is there more than one of them?!
Best: Turtles
Worst: the President sticking his nose where it didn’t belong.
What is turtles? Never heard of it as a game.
Turtle carts. Sit on them, put your feet on the handlebars, grab the handles and then sort wiggle back and forth to zoom around the gym floor.
Oh that looks really fun. Thanks!
Running is the worst for me personally, between weak ankles and maybe sports-induced asthma. Thankfully in high school I got a pass out of any running due to a slightly nuts podiatrist who thought the only sport that was safe was snow skiing because my ankles were bound in. (Even swimming was out, apparently? Made no sense to me. I went on to play water polo anyway.)
Loved badminton.
Favourite was dodgeball, for obvious reasons. Least favourite was dodgeball, cause we played with volleyballs.
meters
I was skinny and situps on the concrete basketball court put bruises up and down my spine, ouch they hurt, hated those.
Archery probably the most fun, though the arrows were so dull they would bounce off the target if you hit it.
Most favorite: indoor hockey
Least: swimming. Hate swimming and having chlorine smell all day. Plus it was winter and more than one fire alarm occurred during gym swim period.
