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red rover
noun
- a children's game in which two teams, some distance apart, face each other and take turns designating an opposing player to run toward their line. Any player who fails to break through their clasped hands becomes a member of that team.
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Origin of red rover1
Example Sentences
It bears a rough resemblance to the schoolyard game known in the United States as “Red Rover,” or a game known in England as “British Bulldog.”
This is not a game of Red Rover.
On a recent Friday, Kautzman was the patrol’s “red rover,” tasked with skiing the whole mountain, not just a section.
The grown-up faces in those Zoom windows were the kids I’d once played with: hide-n-seek, kickball, and my favorite, Red Rover.
In response to a news story about a shooting and subsequent protests at the Riverchase Galleria shopping mall in Hoover, Pepper wrote: “See I have to go shopping there next week and we gone play a game called red rover red rover you fools gone get ran over!”
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