Was there an activity you enjoyed in your youth or childhood that you don't participate in at all in adulthood?

Basketball, pogs, Giga Pets.

Rugby

I just flat-out don’t skateboard anymore. From ages 11–13 skateboarding was my life. Man, has that changed…

Riding roller coasters. I miss them, but they terrify me now. :(

Downhill skiing, basketball, and softball, because I have an arthritic right knee.

I used to skate a lot, I used to play with stray kittens, I was hard core into Karate and was pretty good too.
Oh god, aging properly should be taught in schools :\

Tennis. But, I think about taking it up again. I think recognizing what we enjoyed in childhood and going back to some of those things can really give us happiness. You didn’t ask this, but one of the things I did go back to as an adult was ballet, although now I have substituted zumba, because ballet is so cost prohibitive where I live now. I also used to ice skate, and have only done it a few times as an adult.

Galaga

Knocky nine doors, I don’t know what it’s called in the states, but it basically involved knocking on peoples doors & yes….running away! I don’t do that now coz i’ve grown up see, now I just stare at people through their windows as they watch the telly.

@ucme Over here it’s called ding-dong ditch. :)

@Vunessuh Fab, I always wondered where these names originated from. Some genius sitting in a dark room, pondering away perhaps? Or maybe it’s not really that important…....

As a Nipper, Catchy kisses :-/
If I did this now I’d be locked up for indecent assault :-/

Hopscotch, skipping, Barbie and Sindy. My cute poochey dog. Climbing tree’s with my brother’s, riding bikes around the fields at the back of our houses…...aahhhh memories :-)

Watching cartoons

I watched cartoons well into my 20’s. Sometimes I get sad that they still don’t fascinate me like they used to. :-(

Climbing on monkey bars. I can’t believe the upper body strength that all kids seem to naturally have. I don’t think I could do one crossing now without dislocating something,

Sports. :(

Bike riding and rollerskating. I haven’t done either of those since I left college.

dress up/make over… now a days I just want to stay in my PJs let alone get dressed and redressed over again!

Likewise playing house… Why as a kid I liked to pretend to tidy my house ill never know….

Pin The Tail On The Donkey.

Played this at my 10th birthday party and pinned a girl in the chest. No more!

Tree climbing.

I liked to run but an accident ten years ago put a stop to that.

@Vunessuh I miss pogs!

Climbing trees.
Acting and dancing
Making mixed tapes

When I was younger I didn’t give a second thought, if I even gave a first thought, to risks of things like riding a horse at full out speed across a field or jumping off a cliff into water. Now, mishaps hurt more and longer than they used to. Damn mortality! Also being a grownup, I think of things like liability which ruins a lot of fun.

@ucme I know someone who calls it “Ding Dong Leg-it”!

Water skiing and horseback riding.

I haven’t had a horse for 8 years now, and I haven’t waterskied for 20.

I do still float down the river on inner tubes now and then, but most of my “wet and wild” action happens in my hot tub now. lol

I used to roller skate and thought I would all my life. I also used to ride horses almost daily.

Playing jacks, hopscotch, and jumping rope. I don’t have grandkids or I might still participate.

Horse-riding. I was raised in the country where every other person owned horses. Now I live in a city where it’s a rarity and I can’t afford it any more.

I miss riding, maybe lease a horse this year again.

I have the property but, too much expense to buy a truck and trailer unless I just want to ride around my pasture and up and down my road.

Hide and seek.

Climbing trees.

Building snow forts.

Having snowball fights.

Skating at an ice pond.

@ucme We used to call it knocka door ginger which I didn’t understand at all and still don’t. (Canada) Ding dong and leg it makes perfect sense.

Anything involving a playground, reading novels well into the night (and morning and early afternoon).

@Leanne1986 & yes, you @faye Whatever it was called there’s no denying it was fun, naughty but nice!

Drawing or doodling on the walls using color pencils

Soccer… I still play with friends sometimes, but not competitively anymore.

I seriously can’t think of anything. That’s what’s so great about having a child in your life. I still swing, blow bubbles, roller skate, use chalk, play in the snow, color, play with Barbies, hula hoop, hopscotch, hide and seek…..the list goes on.

damn, I need more babies or some grandchildren in my life. my little girl is almost 8 ;)

edit- just thought of one. Spin the bottle!

By the way, I climbed a tree last week. I had to cut some branches that blocked the dish antenna. They were about 30 feet up and very big but I had fun climbing around although it is a bit harder to climb a tree when you’re in your 60’s than when you 12.

I used to be Cat Woman (from the Batman series) on the playground. I’d skulk around the slidea going “This is puuuuurrrrr-fect dahling!!” Last time I did it, though, last year, they threw me in jail.

I used to climb up on the roof of our house to a little nook between the chimney and the roof and hide and read a book. Last time I did THAT, just last year, I got thrown in jail again because I haven’t lived in that house since 1980.

I had an exciting year last year.

@Dutchess_III You just reminded me I was Kelly on Charlie’s Angels.

I was who ever Farrah Fawcett was!

I think Farrah was Jill? Jill, Kelly and Bri.

Actually, I was too old to “play” Charlie’s angels. : (

Skipping. I rocked at double dutch but I have skipped since I was 12.

We used to string rubber bands together to do double Dutch…I guess jump ropes hadn’t been invented yet! Or something….

@Dutchess_III You are never to old to “play” Charlie’s Angels. Look at Drew Barrymore.~