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freeze tag

freeze tag noun: a variant of the playground game tag, in which a tagged player, rather than becoming "it", becomes "frozen" (and forbidden from moving) but may be unfrozen by being touched by an untagged player.

Noun

freeze tag (uncountable)

  1. (playground games) A variant of the playground game tag, in which a tagged player, rather than becoming "it", becomes "frozen" (and forbidden from moving) but may be unfrozen by being touched by an untagged player.
    • As part of the NFL initiative "Play 60," Garrard stressed to the 300 or so students the importance of at least an hour of exercise a day. He told them he enjoyed playing freeze tag, hide and seek or just playing with frogs outside.2009 November 10, Mary Kelli Palka, “Student takes Jaguars QB to school”, in The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, F.L.: Gannett Co., Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2023

Questions about freeze tag

What does freeze tag mean?
Freeze tag means a variant of the playground game tag, in which a tagged player, rather than becoming "it", becomes "frozen" (and forbidden from moving) but may be unfrozen by being touched by an untagged player.
What part of speech is freeze tag?
Freeze tag is a noun.

Words near freeze tag in the dictionary

  1. freeze out
  2. freeze over
  3. freeze peach
  4. freeze pop
  5. freeze pops
  6. freeze tag
  7. freeze to
  8. freeze up
  9. freeze valve
  10. freeze valves
  11. freeze-ahead

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