The type of play I enjoyed and what play meant to me as a child

The type of play I enjoyed as a child was jump rope and singing what we called cheers.  We would wake up in the morning anxious to get to school because we would have jump rope competitions in the playground.  After school we would come home and once we did our homework there we was back outside again jumping rope.  We also used to sing cheers.  It was forbidden for my cousins and I to sing cheers so we would go to the other end of the block with our friends.  My grandmother used to say singing cheers was for fast girls so if we were to get caught we were definitely going to be in trouble.  So I don't know if we enjoyed it so much because it was something we weren't supposed to be doing or if it was just plain fun either or we loved doing it.  Another game we used to play was hide go seek.  We found joy in trying to find those who were hiding running after them to catch them before they touched the tree you counted at.  For some reason I loved to play marbles too. I enjoyed when our parents used to take us to the playground to swing on the swings and go down the slide.  I was always afraid to climb the monkey bars.  Another thing I can remember doing in the house with my cousins is pretending to have talent shows we would get the broom to use as our microphone and my brother played his keyboard while we all took turns singing.  We even played outside in the winter having snowball fights and making snowmen and snow angels.  There was also games we played like rock teacher and red light green light.  On days we couldn't go outside we would stay in the house and play board games or Atari and Nintendo  Play meant a lot to me as a child because it was a time to share and have fun with not only my family but also my friends.  We all looked forward to this play time everyday and we loved summer because it meant we could play all day.