Well that was a fun trip down memory lane . .

@ninalanyon Fair enough! I definitely had a preference for any activity that could be done in the warmth of the gym during winter 🥶

@ninalanyon Reminds me of rugby! Freezing weather and not a fan of mud. On football I just wasn't any good as they found when after 0-8 down maybe me in goal wasn't the best idea! The pity at school is there wasn't access to sports I could do such as swimming and racket sports.

@Thinkingdeeper In the sixties and seventies I think pretty much every school (at least in the South) had a proper playing field and a gym that had facilities for tennis and badminton. We had to do pretty much all the ordinary Olympic sports at one time or another it seemed to me plus cricket, rugby, tennis, badminton, hockey, cross country running. But the usual PE was football for the boys, netball or hockey for the girls, plus gymnastics for everyone.

I was uniformly rubbish at pretty much all of it but it did at least give us all some exercise. Later on in the sixth form it became possible to skip games if you could demonstrate that you were using the time for something academic so several of us did that. Of course in those days hardly anyone was taken to school by car, we either went by bus or walked. I walked so that I could save up the bus fare for something more interesting and that gave me at least an hour or moderate exercise every day.

@SunshineGirl yes of course...those years are so precious

@Justme264 My wife will be taking her turn next week!

@SunshineGirl all sounds fabulous to me

@HumanEarth It's a bit like basketball, only you don't dribble the ball and you can't move your feet once you are holding the ball. It's mainly a girls sport at school level, but it is quite big as an adult sport in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Kinda sounds like Gorilla Ball we played as kids

Its a game we made up. Same idea but the other players had to do whatever it takes to get to move you from your spot or drop the ball before you shoot. Kinda like mixing full contact ball sports with fighting sports.

It was everyone for themselves, no teams and can be painful

1 point for normal shots 3 points from point line and you get free throws if someone hits you in the face or crotch (low blows were a no no)

Most of time no one physically hits, just pushes and shoves the other players around. But when you alcoholic drinks. Things change. (That's when got older of course)

We played this from little kids till late 20s. We just moved away from each other and that's why we stopped playing

@HumanEarth Made up games are the best of all!