Abstract
Authors address children's group games in a collection of 1600 records. Collected and presented are games played by children on their own, aged 1st - 9th grades, in 1995-2000.
Games are first classified into: 1. chasing, 2. catching, 3. seeking, 4. hunting, 5. racing, 6. dueling, 7. exerting, 7*. schooling, 8. daring, 8*. shocking, 9. guessing, 10. acting, 11. pretending, 12. shooting, 13. gender - elaborating the classification of the Opies and inquiring into the potentialities of analyzing motifs as expressing poetics of drives. Second into: 1. touching an other; 2. in touch body to body; 3. throwing an object - with touching a body; 4. throwing an object - on a track; 5. running - with touching a body; 6. running - on a track; 7. composing a movement - jugglery, rhythmics; 8. composing an object; 9. guessing; 10. fictive identities and stories - elaborating the question of relations: cooperation, competition, bullying etc.
The possibility of a classification combining both criteria is discussed.