Elastics. Did you used to play?

[lurker172602]

Having a discussion yesterday with friends, me (ex NZ) and two similar aged friends, (mid fifties), 1 ex Sydney, 1 ex Melbourne, all remember playing Elastics as young girls, although the Victorian didn't think that was what they called it. Two other, older, friends had no idea what we were talking about.

Did you play, and what did you call it?

[lloydslights]

My younger sister was a Chinese Elastics champ at primary, (also marbles, knuckles)

Being a couple of years older, at the same primary school,  I used to participate in Dutch skipping - a long pair of ropes previously provided by a local market gardener who had used them for tying the cauliflowers down on his truck.

A team of about 10 girls, running individually into the turning ropes and exiting before the next girl entered.

E-n-e-r-g-y.

DEB

[imastawka]

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@lind9650 wrote:

What on earth are elastics besides the ones you have in your knickers waistbands?

Erica

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[j*oono]

We must have been a lot fitter pre computers and video games.

[serendipityricho]

Not sure about that game with elastics

But in my younger days -have pulled the back of bra straps

back about  200mm -let go and---started running ..>>>>>>>..Richo.

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

I grew up in Adelaide and we played elastics.

Who remembers these? Click clacks!

[debra9275]

oddly enough, we used to call it "Chinese Skippy"... no idea why.

interesting that you called it French Skippy Joono.  "French knitting"i remember too

[lurker172602]

I had a quick look at wiki after I posted the OP and it appears chinese ropes, jumpsies, elastics, yoki and french skipping all work.

[cezm]

I still have mine - from the 70s!

[cezm]

We called it elastics - in the 70s - in Fiji.

[cherry*135]

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@j*oono wrote:

We must have had a thing about France.  French knitting was popular at that time too.

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Knitting on spools? We called that rat's tails.

We played elastics also.

Used to put them on chair legs to practice by yourself.