Meanings of indoor games in English

For the older children, checkers and dominoes are most excellent indoor games.

Let us consider something seasonable; let us consider indoor games for a moment.

A quietly conducted political meeting is one of England's most delightful indoor games.

Every woman who ever invites people to her home should know the etiquette of indoor games.

There are many indoor games, and a very great favourite is the game of alphabet cards.

On the second day, indoor games of various kinds were proposed and entered into with much spirit.

Some indoor games are of eastern origin.

This, you will notice, often happens when you decide to play indoor games on a wet afternoon.

You know the way indoor games usually end up 17-12?

There are very few indoor games that cannot be played in the open air with proper apparatus or rules.

Rainy days put an end to outdoor delights, but they only gave more time for indoor games with their neglected dolls.

The indoor games were marbles, checkers, backgammon, dominoes, hunt-the-slipper, blind-man's-buff, and in some houses, where they were not too strict, they played cards.

The girls choose quieter indoor games, chumming becomes prominent, and interest in books, especially of the semi-religious and romantic type, comes to the front.

Some women who enjoy indoor games form clubs for the purpose of devoting one or more afternoons or evenings a week to the favored game.

Athletics:Alistair Cragg faces a tough 3000 metres clash against Australia's Craig Mottram at the Reebok Boston indoor games on January 27.

MONDAY Movers And Shakers (Channel 4, 8 p.m.) First of a six-part series about indoor games and those who play them.