Concept information
Preferred term
piggy in the middle
Definition
- Piggy in the Middle is a children's game played in the Anglophone world and Turkey, with a name subject to broad regional variety: Donkey Ball, Hide the Pickle, Keep Away (and Keep Away From____, filling in the blank with the name of the player in the middle), Monkey in the Middle, Pickle in a Dish, Pickle in the Middle, Pig in the Middle, or Rat in the Middle, among likely others. Piggy in the Middle is principally British; Rat in the Middle is Turkish; and Monkey in the Middle is common along the eastern seaboard of Canada and the United States. [Source: Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society; Piggy in the Middle]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/piggy_in_the_middle
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