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A street game or street sport is a sport or game that is played on city streets rather than a prepared field. Street games are usually simply play time activities for children in the most convenient venue. Some street games have risen to the level of organized tournaments, such as stickball.

Street sports
Street sports are sports held in urban environments. Street sports are an expression of the spontaneous, improvisational and creative origins of sport adapted by human ingenuity to the urban environment. In historical terms their origins are traceable to the very earliest evidence of sports in Greek and Roman civilisation. Street sports are a hybrid form of sport and reflect the adaptation of conventional sports to the cityscape. In the words of Foucan, street sports are "...a philosophy concerned with the quest of personal and social realisation..." ==Examples of street games==
Examples of street games
This is a list of games that are traditionally played by urban children in playgrounds, parking lots, and back streets. They are all games that may be played on a hard surface, like asphalt. They are part of children's street culture, and are notoriously hard to classify rigorously. Utilizing a rubber ball Other games ==In popular culture==
In popular culture
• Street sports in the Middle East: The Kite Runner and The Kite Runner (the film adaptation) • Highwire Walking: Man on Wire, film documenting the background to Petit's high-wire walk between the WTC Towers. • A 2010 PBS documentary, New York Street Games, shows the best-known street games played in New York City in the twentieth century, as well as discussing the decline of those games in recent decades. ==See also==
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