Includes index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Note to parents -- Few things you might want to know -- Acorn toss -- Amoeba tag -- Balance race -- Balancing act -- Ball between the knees race -- Balloon blanket toss -- Balls and caps -- Baseless baseball -- Basketball games -- Basketball court tag -- Beanbag toss -- Behavior modification -- Behind the curtain -- Bicycle unrace -- Blind man's buff -- British bulldog -- Brooklyn Bridge -- Bubble race -- Bucket ball -- Bungle bungle -- Buried treasure -- Capture the flag -- Cat and mouse -- Catch a sponge -- Chair carry -- Chimp race -- Clothespins -- Cold potato -- Contrary Simon says -- Crab soccer -- Cross tag -- Dizzy Izzy -- Dodge ball games -- Everybody's it -- Five dollars -- Fivestones -- Flashlight tag -- Flutter ball -- Follow the leader -- Four square -- Fox and geese -- Freeze tag -- Frisbee football -- Frisbee golf -- German -- Germs and doctors -- Goal kickers -- Gold glove -- Golf ball billiards -- Grab tag -- Grass is lava -- Great foot freeze -- Hackey sack -- Hand tennis -- Handball -- Hide and seek -- High fly -- Hit the penny -- Hopscotch games -- Hot balloons -- Jacks -- Jump rope games -- Keep your eye on the ball -- Kicking off! -- Kick the can -- Kick ball -- Kid Olympics -- Killer whale -- Kings, queens, jacks --- Knots -- Luna y las estrellas -- Lame hen -- Lawn furniture obstacle course -- lazy bikes -- Limbo -- Main karet gelang -- Manhunt -- Marble games -- Marco Polo -- Monkey in the middle -- Mount ball -- Nine pins -- No-net tennis -- Octopus tag -- Outdoor sculpt it! -- Pavement art -- Pie tag -- Ping pong scramble -- Poison -- Poison ball -- Polybottles -- Prisoner's base -- Puss in the corner -- Random useless fact tag -- Rattlesnake -- Red light, green light -- Roly poly -- Running across -- Running bases -- Safety tag -- Sardines -- Shadow tag -- Shark and minnows -- Sharks and jets -- Shout out -- Sidewalk golf -- Simon says -- Single football -- Skully -- Slam ball -- Slap ball -- Slow kid's revenge -- Soft fuzzy things of death -- Sponge tag -- Sprinkler games -- Spud -- Standoff -- Statues -- Stoopball -- Sweatshirt relay -- Tag -- Three-legged race -- Tiger and leopard -- Touch color -- Tracking -- Tree ball -- Tug of war -- Tunnel swimming race -- Two square -- Ultimate frisbee -- Underwater tag -- Volleyball -- Volleyballoon -- Walk the plank -- Water balloon toss -- Water brigade -- Water hoops -- Water slide -- Water slide bowling -- Water volleyball -- Watermelon ball -- Webmaster -- Werewolf in the dark -- Wheeled slalom -- Whirlpool -- Wolf and sheep -- Metric conversions.

Provides directions, equipment lists, and variations for 150 outdoor games, some familiar and some new.