Street game

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A street game is a sport or game that is played on city streets rather than a prepared field. Street games are usually simply play time activities of children in the most convenient venue. However some street games have risen to the level of organized tournaments, such as stickball.

When street games are based on organized sports the rules are usually highly modified to fit the situation, i.e. manhole covers for bases with cars or buildings for foul lines in stickball. When balls are called for in street games, spaldeens are often used.

[edit] See also

• Playground game
• Children's game
• Street Football

[edit] List of street games

• Stickball, an urban variant of baseball
  • Hit the Bat, another variant of baseball
• Street basketball
  • Streetball
• Chinese handball, a variant of American handball
• Skully, the "poor man's golf", played with bottlecaps
• Ringolevio, a game with two teams that mixes elements of Tag with Hide and seek