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The title of the thread basically asks my question. Which cities do children actually go outdoors to play football, basketball, baseball, ride bikes, play manhunt, Climb trees, jump Rope, Box ball, Burn Ball, build forts in the neighborhood with tents or in the wooded area around a neighborhood, or any other outdoor activities?
Just curious to see in what areas of the country do the children spend time outdoors the most.
The title of the thread basically asks my question. Which cities do children actually go outdoors to play football, basketball, baseball, ride bikes, play manhunt, Climb trees, jump Rope, Box ball, Burn Ball, build forts in the neighborhood with tents or in the wooded area around a neighborhood, or any other outdoor activities?
Just curious to see in what areas of the country do the children spend time outdoors the most.
Kids do all the above here, with the exception to "Burn Ball" never heard of that one. You can add going to the beach and swimming, fishing, canoeing, hiking, and playing "Tarzan" on the wild grape vines in the woods around town as some of the main activities as well.
The title of the thread basically asks my question. Which cities do children actually go outdoors to play football, basketball, baseball, ride bikes, play manhunt, Climb trees, jump Rope, Box ball, Burn Ball, build forts in the neighborhood with tents or in the wooded area around a neighborhood, or any other outdoor activities?
Just curious to see in what areas of the country do the children spend time outdoors the most.
Kids do the bolded things here. I have no clue what Burn Ball is and I don't know too many people who would wonder into a wooded area. You'd have to be far out to have access to the woods anyway.
I think that any place that has enough children will have more than its share of these activities.
Kids do the bolded things here. I have no clue what Burn Ball is and I don't know too many people who would wonder into a wooded area. You'd have to be far out to have access to the woods anyway.
I think that any place that has enough children will have more than its share of these activities.
I don't know really if that's totally true. I moved from Orlando and saw kids playing basketball outside all the time and at the parks playing football and on the residential streets playing football to a lot before I moved last year and also I grew up in Miami and every time I went back to visit I would see groups of kids doing things outside. I moved here to Nashville last year and it's pretty dead as far as seeing kids in my apartment complex playing basketball or doing anything outside....and as I drive around town here I really don't notice the same things I did when I was in Florida. I 'm sure kids are out sometimes up here but where I came from you would see them outside all the time. I just don't see that up here in Nashville really. Maybe it's all the hills or something.
p.s. - you probably called it something else but burn ball is a game we played in Miami when I was a kid where you throw a tennis ball off of a wall and if the person that tries to catch it touches the ball and drops it then they have to run up to the wall and tag it before someone hits them with the ball. If you got hit 3 times then you would have to stand facing the wall and the person that hit you the 3rd time got a free shot at you and got to throw the ball and hit you anywhere on the back of your body while you faced the wall.
Kids do all the above here, with the exception to "Burn Ball" never heard of that one. You can add going to the beach and swimming, fishing, canoeing, hiking, and playing "Tarzan" on the wild grape vines in the woods around town as some of the main activities as well.
Thanks for the response and I just posted what burn ball is above here in another response just incase you wanted to look at that. What city do you live in by the way?
West side of Michigan, all the towns and small cities are pretty much alike when it comes to kids playing outside.
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