hide and seek
US/ˌhaɪd ən ˈsik/
hide and seek noun: a game where the players have to hide and one has to seek them out.
Noun
hide and seek (uncountable)
- A game where the players have to hide and one has to seek them out.
- I would sometimes lie down, and let five or six of them dance on my hand; and at last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide-and-seek in my hair.1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- Synonyms:
- hide and coop, hide and go seek
hide and seek meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
hide and seek in Hindi
- game
- लुकाछिपी lukāchipī, आइस-पाइस āis-pāis, छुपन-छुपाई chupan-chupāī, छुपम-छुपाई chupam-chupāī, आँखमिचौली ā̃khmicaulī, आँखमिचौनी ā̃khmicaunī
hide and seek in Tamil
- game
- கண்ணாம்பூச்சி kaṇṇāmpūcci
hide and seek in Urdu
- game
- چُھپَن چُھپائی chupan chupāī
hide and seek in Bengali
- hide and seek
- লুকোচুরি lukōcuri
More languagesFewer languages
- hide and seek in Telugu
- గుప్తకేళి guptakēḷi
- hide and seek in Malayalam
- ഒളിച്ചുകളി oḷiccukaḷi
- hide and seek in Kannada
- ಗುಂಡುಗುರುಚಾಡು, ಕಣ್ಣಾಮುಚ್ಚಿ, ಕಣ್ಣಾಮುಚ್ಚೆ, ಕಣ್ಣಾಮುಚ್ಚಾಲೆ
- hide and seek in Punjabi
- ਲੁਕਣ-ਮੀਟੀ lukṇa-mīṭī, ਲੁਕਣ ਮੀਚੀ lukaṇ mīcī, ਲੁਕਣ ਛਿਪਣ lukaṇ chipaṇ, لُکَّݨ مِیٹی lukkaṇ mīṭī
- hide and seek in Gujarati
- સંતાકૂકડી santākūkṛī
- hide and seek in Nepali
- लुकामारी lukāmārī
- hide and seek in Tagalog
- taguan
- hide and seek in Arabic
- غُمَّيْضَة ḡummayḍa
- hide and seek in Malay
- main sembunyi-sembunyi, sorok-sorok, aci sorok
- hide and seek in Indonesian
- bersurukan, suruk, petak umpat
- hide and seek in Thai
- ซ่อนหา sɔ̂ɔn-hǎa, ซ่อนแอบ
- hide and seek in Vietnamese
- trốn tìm, ú tim, hú tim
Synonyms of hide and seek
Forms of hide and seek
| alternative form | hide-and-seek |
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Questions about hide and seek
- What does hide and seek mean?
- Hide and seek means a game where the players have to hide and one has to seek them out.
- What is hide and seek in Hindi?
- Hide and seek in Hindi is लुकाछिपी (lukāchipī), आइस-पाइस (āis-pāis), छुपन-छुपाई (chupan-chupāī). See Hide and seek meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hide and seek?
- Hide and seek is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hide and seek?
- Hide and seek is pronounced /ˌhaɪd ən ˈsik/ (US).
Words near hide and seek in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hide and seek (page history and authors); লুকোচুরি (Bengali) (page history and authors); గుప్తకేళి (Telugu) (page history and authors); ഒളിച്ചുകളി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); hide and seek (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); સંતાકૂકડી (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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