hide and seek

See also: hide-and-seek

English

Alternative forms

• hide-and-seek

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

hide and seek (uncountable)

1. (playground games) A game where the players have to hide and one has to seek them out.
   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels:

     I would sometimes lie down, and let five or six of them dance on my hand; and at last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide-and-seek in my hair.

Synonyms

• hide and go seek (US, alternatively)

Translations

game

• Albanian: çelembyll (sq)
• Arabic: غُمَّيْضَة f (ḡummayḍa)

  Egyptian Arabic: أستغماية

  Gulf Arabic: غمضية

  Hijazi Arabic: غميضة (ḡummēda), شرعت (šarʕat)

  Iraqi Arabic: غمضية

  Moroccan Arabic: غمِّيضة (ḡummīḍa), غمَّيْضة (ḡummayḍa)

  Najdi Arabic: خشيشوَة

• Armenian: պախկվոցի (hy) (paxkvocʻi), պահմտոցի (hy) (pahmtocʻi)
• Azerbaijani: gizlənpaç
• Belarusian: хо́ванкі f pl (xóvanki)
• Bulgarian: кри́еница f (kríenica)
• Catalan: fet i amagar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迷藏 (zh) (mícáng), 捉迷藏 (zh) (zhuōmícáng)

• Czech: schovávaná (cs) f, na schovku, schovka f (colloquial), schovávačka f
• Danish: gemmeleg c
• Dutch: verstoppertje (nl) n
• Esperanto: kaŝludo
• Estonian: peitus, peitusemäng (rare)
• Finnish: kuurupiilo (fi), piilosilla olo
• French: cache-cache (fr) m
• Galician: agachadas f pl
• Georgian: დახუჭობანა (daxuč̣obana)
• German: Verstecken (de) n, Versteckspiel (de) n
• Greek: κρυφτό (el) n (kryftó)
• Hebrew: מַחְבּוֹאִים (he) m pl (maḥbo'ím)
• Hindi: लुकाछिपी (hi) f (lukāchipī), आइस-पाइस (āis-pāis), छुपन-छुपाई (chupan-chupāī), छुपम-छुपाई (chupam-chupāī), आँखमिचौली (hi) (ā̃khmicaulī), आँखमिचौनी (hi) (ā̃khmicaunī)
• Hungarian: bújócska (hu)
• Ido: celo-trovo (io)
• Indonesian: bersurukan (id), suruk (id), petak umpat (id)
• Italian: nascondino (it) m, rimpiattino (it) m
• Japanese: 隠れん坊 (ja) (かくれんぼ, kakurenbo, かくれんぼう, kakurenbō), 隠れ鬼 (かくれおに, kakureoni), 隠れ遊び (かくれあそび, kakureasobi), 隠れ子 (かくれご, kakurego)
• Javanese: dhelikan, kucing-kucingan, jorèt, jorètan (jv), jélung, jélungan
• Kabuverdianu: sukundida, skundida, mangatxada, djaóra
• Kazakh: жасырынбақ (jasyrynbaq)
• Korean: 숨바꼭질 (sumbakkokjil)
• Kyrgyz: жашынмак (jaşınmak)
• Latgalian: drypatys pl
• Latvian: paslēpes f pl
• Lithuanian: slėpynės f pl
• Macedonian: кри́енка f (kríenka), крие́ница f (kriénica)
• Malay: main sembunyi-sembunyi, sorok-sorok, aci sorok
• Maltese: noli (de) m
• Maori: piripiri, whakapupuni, taupupuni, tauhunahuna
• Nepali: लुकामारी (lukāmārī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjemsel, gjømsel

  Nynorsk: gøymsle

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: قایِم‌باشَک (ğâyem-bâšak)

• Picard: muche-caba m
• Polish: chowany (pl) m, chowanka (pl) f, chowaniec (pl) m, zabawa w chowanego (pl) f
• Portuguese: esconde-esconde, pique-esconde
• Punjabi: ਲੁਕਣ-ਮੀਟੀ f (lukṇa-mīṭī), ਲੁਕਣ ਮੀਚੀ f (lukaṇ mīcī), ਲੁਕਣ ਛਿਪਣ m (lukaṇ chipaṇ)
• Quechua: chinkay
• Romanian: de-a v-ați ascunselea (ro)
• Russian: пря́тки (ru) f pl (prjátki), жму́рки (ru) f pl (žmúrki)
• Scottish Gaelic: car mu chnoc m, falach-fead m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жмура f, жмурка f, скривача f

  Roman: žmura (sh) f, žmurka (sh) f, skrivača f

• Slovak: schovávačka f
• Slovene: skrivalnica f
• Spanish: escondidas (es) f pl, escondite m
• Swedish: kurragömma (sv)
• Tagalog: taguan
• Tatar: качышлы (tt) (qaçışlı)
• Thai: ซ่อนหา, ซ่อนแอบ
• Turkish: saklambaç (tr)
• Udi: чӏапӏбакал (č̣aṗbakal)
• Ukrainian: хо́ванки f pl (xóvanky), схо́ванки f pl (sxóvanky), жму́рки f pl (žmúrky)
• Urdu: چُھپَن چُھپائی (chupan chupāī)
• Uzbek: bekinmachoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: trốn tìm
• Welsh: chwarae cuddio m
• Yoruba: bojúbojú

See also

• hide and seek on Wikipedia.Wikipedia