Wikipedia describes the game tag as follows: "Tag is a playground game involving one or more players chasing other players in an attempt to "tag" and mark them out of play, typically by touching with a hand. ... The last one tagged during tag is "It" for the next round."
However, when I was growing up, whenever the player who was "It" tagged another player, the tagger would stop being It and the player who was tagged would become It instead. The game continued indefinitely, with all players engaged the whole time, and there was no "out."
The article also describes a variant sometimes known as "zombie tag," where anyone who gets tagged becomes It in addition to the other player(s) who were already It. In this way, "being It" would spread until everyone had been tagged.
When you were a kid, which of these variants did the game Tag refer to? (Or the equivalent name if you used another regional variant like "tig" or "chase.") This is not referring to other variants such as freeze tag, unless that's what you and your playmates called Tag.
If you get tagged, you're out
If you get tagged, you become It
Everyone who gets tagged becomes It for the rest of the game (zombie tag)
Our version of Tag worked differently than any of these
We did not play Tag when I was a child
Wikipedia describes the game tag as follows: "Tag is a playground game involving one or more players chasing other players in an attempt to "tag" and mark them out of play, typically by touching with a hand. ... The last one tagged during tag is "It" for the next round." However, when I was growing up, whenever the player who was "It" tagged another player, the tagger would stop being It and the player who was tagged would become It instead. The game continued indefinitely, with all players engaged the whole time, and there was no "out." The article also describes a variant sometimes known as "zombie tag," where anyone who gets tagged becomes It in addition to the other player(s) who were already It. In this way, "being It" would spread until everyone had been tagged. When you were a kid, which of these variants did the game Tag refer to? (Or the equivalent name if you used another regional variant like "tig" or "chase.") This is not referring to other variants such as freeze tag, unless that's what you and your playmates called Tag.
If you get tagged, you're out
If you get tagged, you become It
Everyone who gets tagged becomes It for the rest of the game (zombie tag)
Our version of Tag worked differently than any of these
We did not play Tag when I was a child
