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<i>Figure 1.--Bikes are among boys's most prized possessions.  Here two children follow their dad on a bike ride through a local park in Belgrade.  Looks like dad may have a picnic lunch.  Photographer:  William Ferguson.</i>
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<p> Boys wore a variety of different garments for various activities. This has included play. In earlier periods boys had much more limited wardrobes because of income levels. Boys involved on the fine arts might also have special outfits. Modern boys do not dress as formlly as was once common, but they tend to have much more elaborate uniforms than was once the case.  Children enjoy playing with their bikes.  Younger children may have pedal cars and trikes which they use around home.  Children on bikes may explore a liitle further from home such as nearby parks.  Sports are an important part of boy's play.  A Belgrade reader tells us about <a href="bel-play01.html">children play in Belgrade</a> during the 2000s.  


<! Children's play activities are much the same in Belgrade as in many other parts of the world. On a typical sunny weekend it is common to see chalk markings on the pavement for a game of hob scotch. If its before meal time then children will be outside in the fresh air playing this game. Parents will be out on the street too watching their children play and chatting to each other. Father's often are well into the swing of things and are playing the games along side their children. Father's often enjoy a kick about football with their son and often hisfriends.The balls are the stitched leather type and no one plays footy with a a large sponge ball. These are not popular for playing footy. Boys and girls tend to dress in track suits when they are out playing. The colours are different. Boys tend to wear darker coloured sports wear while girls have much lighter coloured track suits. Roller blading is another passtime children enjoy doing. They wear all the specilised protective gear for this activity. Some roller blading is done in the street nearer home but often children take their roller blades and skate in the many parks that are located throughout Belgrade. Older children enjoy skateboarding. I have not seen many of the older children doing this sort on the street. They tend to go in Saint Sava park where they make an improvised course. Many children go over to the Skateboard Park across the river in New Belgrade. In both places they play for long periods of time perfecting their skateboarding skills. Often children can be seen wearing facsimily football club kits. This often indicate that they are attending an organised sporting activity. There are amateur football and Tennis clubs in which coaching and youth games are organised. Lots of children have bicycles and these are ridden in the parks and at in the street where they live. Young primary school children play lots of chasing games. These involve chasing each other and a tap on the shoulder means the person who has been touched is the next chaser. Some boys have plastic toy guns and enjoy playing army for hours on end. Again this is a chasing and hiding game in which children imitate the actions of soldiers they have seen in army film. There are seasonal games too. At Easter time children decorate eggs and then play a game in which there is an egg battle. The egg which is not broken is the winner. The game is played by holding an egg so that the poles are at the top and bottom. An egg hits the oppositions pole. If the egg breaks that has lost and the unbroken egg goes forward to the next round. In winter time there is often much snow and children can be seen enjoying a snowball fight. Sledging isalso popular in the months when the snow comes. Lots of children start out intending to smash an egg but change their minds after they have spent alot of time decorating the egg. The broken hard boiled eggs are eaten after the game. At any one time children can be seen playing a variety of games in the street. Football is one of those games were the ball accidently lands in a neighbours garden. Play stops while the ball is retreaved. Sometimes this means that a child climbs over the fence to retreave the ball. In this situation both girls and boys have proved equilly agile at climbing to reclaim the ball so that the game can commence. Children seem to have happy childhood experiences in Belgrade." 


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