freeze tag

English

Noun

freeze tag (uncountable)

1. (playground games) A variant of the playground game tag, in which a tagged player, rather than becoming "it", becomes "frozen" (and forbidden from moving) but may be unfrozen by being touched by an untagged player.
   • 2009 November 10, Mary Kelli Palka, “Student takes Jaguars QB to school”, in The Florida Times-Union‎^[1], Jacksonville, F.L.: Gannett Co., Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-19:

     As part of the NFL initiative "Play 60," Garrard stressed to the 300 or so students the importance of at least an hour of exercise a day. He told them he enjoyed playing freeze tag, hide and seek or just playing with frogs outside.

Further reading

• freeze tag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia