hide and seek

See also: hide-and-seek

English

Alternative forms

• hide-and-seek

Pronunciation

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Noun

hide and seek (uncountable)

1. (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 (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: криеница f (krienica)
• Catalan: fet i amagar (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: schovávaná (cs) f, na schovku
• 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
• Hungarian: bújócska (hu)
• Ido: celo-trovo (io)
• Indonesian: bersurukan (id), suruk (id), petak umpat (id)
• Italian: nascondino (it)
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• Japanese: 隠れん坊 (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
• Korean: 숨바꼭질 (sumbakkokjil)
• Latgalian: drypatys pl
• Latvian: paslēpes f pl
• Macedonian: кри́енка f (kríenka)
• 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

• Picard: muche-caba m
• Polish: chowany (pl) m
• Portuguese: esconde-esconde, pique-esconde
• Quechua: chinkay
• Romanian: de-a v-ați ascunselea (ro)
• Russian: пря́тки (ru) f pl (prjátki), жму́рки (ru) f pl (žmúrki)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жмура f, жмурка f

  Roman: žmura (sh) f, žmurka (sh) f

• Spanish: escondidas (es) f pl, escondite m
• Swedish: kurragömma (sv)
• Tagalog: taguan
• Thai: ซ่อนหา, ซ่อนแอบ
• Turkish: saklambaç (tr)
• Udi: чӏапӏбакал (č̣aṗbakal)
• Ukrainian: хо́ванки f pl (xóvanky), жму́рки c pl (žmúrky)
• Urdu: چھپن چھپائی (chupan chupā'ī)
• Vietnamese: trốn tìm
• Welsh: chwarae cuddio m
• Westrobothnian: ,

See also

• hide and seek on Wikipedia.Wikipedia