Game categories

Chasing & Fleeing Games

Chasing and fleeing games are games where players take on the role of chaser or fleer and use speed, dodging, and awareness of space to catch others or avoid being caught. Tag is the simplest version of the form.
Example games
Tag, Kabaddi
Key concepts and tactics
  • Dodging, faking, and changing direction at speed
  • Finding and using open space
  • Chasing at an angle in order to cut off an escape route
  • Reading an opponent's body to predict their next move
  • Staying aware of others while moving through a shared space
Chasing & Fleeing
Cooperation
FMS
Health & Fitness
Invasion
Net & Wall
Striking & Fielding
Target
Chasing & Fleeing

Beaches, Bridges, & Boats

Beaches, Bridges, and Boats is a fantastic tag game for physical education. In the game, students get to explore chasing and fleeing tactics within a playing area that gets more and more complex.

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Chicken Noodle Tag

Chicken Noodle Tag is a Chasing and Fleeing Standards-based PE Game that is perfect for kindergarten and elementary level programs. It focuses on basic skills and has 3 separate builds that will allow you to introduce new concepts to your students.

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Cupid Tag

Cupid Tag is a Valentine's Day-themed chasing and fleeing activity for physical education. The Roman gods Somnus and Cupid are working against each other. Will love prevail?

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Everyone’s IT Frozen Tag

Everyone's IT Frozen Tag is one of my students' favourite chasing and fleeing games for physical education. In the game, everyone is IT: all players attempt to tag others as they simultaneously avoid being tagged.

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Flag Tag

Flag Tag is an exciting chasing and fleeing game for physical education. In this version of the game, students attempt to collect additional flags that they can use to keep themselves (or others) in the game.

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Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is a spooky, Halloween-themed chasing and fleeing game that was designed to help students explore tactics, resolve conflicts, and practice emotional self-regulation.

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Giants, Elves, & Wizards

Giants, Elves, and Wizards is a fun tag game for physical education that works just like "Rock-Paper-Scissors"... except that you get to use your whole body instead of just your hands!

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Halloween Tag

Halloween Tag is a Halloween-themed chasing and fleeing game in which students get to play a variety of roles that are sure to get their heart rate up! Witches, wizards, zombies, and ghosts... this game is spook-tacular!

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Key Tag

Unlock some fun with Key Tag! In Key Tag, students learn about player roles as they compete to lock and unlock their classmates in a fast-paced, action-packed chasing and fleeing game!

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Mr. Wolf

Mr. Wolf is a classic physical education game that students love. In this version, sheep have to avoid being tagged as they safely make their way back to the forest edge. Can they evade the wolves on their way back?

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Chasing & Fleeing

Pirates Of The Caribbean

In Pirates of the Caribbean, Explorers have landed on Treasure Island and discovered a cave full of gold pieces! It’s a race against the clock as these Explorers attempt to bring as much gold from the cave back to the beach, moving one piece at a time. However, the jungle is filled with Pirates!

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Star Wars Tag

Star Wars Tag is always a huge hit with students in PE! It is a Standards-based Chasing and Fleeing game that is perfect for Elementary level students, but it can easily be adapted for Kindergarten programs and older students.

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Team Swarm Tag

Team Swarm Tag is an exciting chasing and fleeing game for physical education! Players work together to tag fleeing players. If tagged, fleeing players rejoin the game as part of the chasing team.

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