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What do Dodgeball and Musical Chairs have in common?

Like most of us, Web Watch remembers the joys and the horrors of grade school gym class.

Remember that annual tradition of learning square dancing during the cold winter months?  Nobody liked doing that, but it was something for the gym teachers to foist upon their charges and hope for the best.

Anything was better than running laps, typically.  Square dancing wasn’t it.

Duck Duck Goose
Duck Duck Goose

But there are some gym class activities that have made the GYM CLASS HALL OF SHAME – games and activities that physical education teachers have oft turned to, much to the chagrin and later-in-life hatred of all things athletic.

Let’s take a look at WHAT ACTIVITIES HAVE MADE THE HALL OF SHAME:

  • Dodgeball
  • Duck Duck Goose
  • Giants Elves and Wizards (what?  it’s almost like a real-life version of Rock Paper Scissors)
  • Kickball
  • Musical Chairs
  • Relay races
  • Steal the Bacon

Is there a long-forgotten and hated gym activities that you wish never existed?  Tell us about it in the notes below: