Chimbridge Singlish Dictionary

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noun

1. a popular children's game, involving a 'catcher' (or for larger groups, more than one 'catcher') who chases the other players around a predefined playing area while attempting to 'catch' them (usually by touching any part of their body with either hand).
   While rules vary, the role of 'catcher' is usually passed on the player who is 'caught', and so the game can continue indefinitely from thereon out; most games implement an 'immunity period' where someone who has just 'caught' another player cannot immediately be 'caught' back by the same player. The variation where a 'catcher' remains a 'catcher' after being 'caught' is specifically known as 'virus', instead of 'catching'.
   The game is often played by groups of children during recess or after school.
   It is known by 'tag', 'it', 'tick', and various other names in other English-speaking countries.

During recess, the school is filled with the playful cries and taunts of school-kids, and the desperate, arrhythmic pattering of their Bata-clad feet, as they run amok in the quadrangle playing catching.

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