hide and go seek
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- noun
- /haɪd ənd ɡoʊ siːk/
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escondite
- But late one night, me and the other kids were playing hide and go seek in the basement.
- play hide and go seek
- game of hide and go seek
I mean, he's the hide and go seek champ, really when you think about it.
- I mean, he's the hide and go seek champ, really when you think about it.
- People were playing hide and go seek with themselves.
- Ishwar's favorite game, which is hide and go seek.
Examples
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Oh, we were just playing hide and go seek.
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Let's play hide and go seek.
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So we would play hide and go seek and we would play in our bedroom.
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What if we played hide and go seek?
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We had just played hide and go seek the day before.
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Who wants to play hide and go seek?
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I dare you to play hide and go seek with us in the woods.
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Flossie Belle wanted to play hide-and-go-seek.
Fiction book (1993) -
Can we play hide-and-go-seek?
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Let's play hide and go seek in the backyard after dinner.
Synonyms
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A children's game where one child closes their eyes, counts, then finds the others
How Physical
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from the constituent verbs: players hide and another player 'goes' to 'seek' them, so knowing 'hide', 'go' and 'seek' allows a learner to infer it's a game of hiding and finding. This coordinated-action construction is cross-linguistically common and follows straightforward compositional logic, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows the words.
Etymology
Hide and go seek is a children's game where some players hide while one player closes their eyes, counts, and then 'goes to seek' the hidden players. The clear picture of someone hiding and another person going to find them is why the name means that game today.