Play Survey Results

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• Sailing
• Playing model railways
• Swinging on a swing
• Bmx biking and playing more cello in bands and symphonies.
• The spontaneous daily adventures as a pre-teen with my best friend. No texts, just bike over to their house and see if they are home and want to come out and play.
• Singing in a choir
• Basketball
• Building forts in nature and fairy gardens
• Ability to run freely without pain. Or monkey bars.
• Shooting hoops or playing a game of baseball 
• Playing at the playground, going down the slideI loved creating worlds and living imaginatively.
• Bringing back wonder, awe, and spontaneity.horse trekking
• Make more art
• Play jacks
• dancing
• dance class
• Fishing
• Tree climbing 
• Camping with family
• volleyball
• Singing with other people
• Roller skating
• Ride my bike every day

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• I love making themed playlists. The latest is called Prairie Drive - it’s for a 4 hour drive through the flowing grasses of Alberta and Saskatchewan. It features songs about tractors, farms, cow hands, horses and hay. It’s mostly by Canadian artists with specific emphasis on those from the prairies.
• Used a parachute with my kayak at sea
• Riding waves
• Bought the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game for my Nintendo Switch for nostalgia.
• singing at the top of my lungs, AirPods in
• Was the oldest person at a The Weeknd concert
• Hopped in a car with my bestie and followed our noses to our favorite places. No agenda, walked and talked and connected.
• Uh. Um. No no hablo inglés
• Make a feast for people when they would have been happy with take out pizza
• Had a fire with girlfriends at the top of a mountain, then peed on it to put it out!
• Delightful - took my family to the beach for takeout and to watch the sunset. Boys threw rocks into the ocean and my husband and I had a chance to laugh together.
• hosted a party
• I embroidered my feelings onto a jacket
• sang really loud in the car
• played piano
• Dancing in the kitchen
• Drove to Portland for 2 hrs and back home. 15hr day
• spoke in silly voices and danced weird with my three-year-old
• Dancing and making silly faces with my kids (ages 6 and 1)
• Jumped off a boat into a glorious lake
• Went to Vegas to hang with my brother.

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• Grand parenting. Made up games to interact with my grandson
• Counting up to 10 for different tasks like loading the dishwasher.
• Grocery shopping- searching for deals
• Laundry- every time i do it I die inside a little and it’s so fun
• Using my debit card. “Let’s see if it works this time!!” Yah it did. Wow that was fun and a complete rush.
• Kind've grocery shopping. I often dance down the aisles with my son.
• Cooking - I usually listen to audiobooks or podcasts while I do it.
• Groceries - meal planning and taking one of my kids. We turn it into a little date.
• Brushing teeth laying on my back, pretending the ceiling was the floor. I did this to get my kids to brush their teeth. It worked. Suckers.

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• Pickle Ball. Perhaps not the game itself but how seriously people take it.
• Golf, it’s insanely expensive, you can have the best clubs and still play poorly, it’s totally unpredictable and it can be infuriating! I would go hiking in the mountains any day instead as it’s so much more rewarding.
• Ultimate Frisbee. Come on.
• Rubik’s cube
• Ping pong
• Smoking
• Beanie babies.
• Pogs.
• Pokemon.
• Cross country skiing - cold, tons of physical work, very little downhill!
• Video games
• Wakesurfing
• Cabbage Patch dolls
• Rubik’s Cube
• Hockey
• Bop it
• Cap gun
• Gardening
• Running
• Charades
• Golf

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• Play marbles
• Swimming naked
• Roll around and wrestle
• Play video games and play with remote controlled cars.
• Ask the blunt question, with total innocence.
• Wearing baseball caps backwards
• Sing alongs at parties
• Chase, catch each other, and roll around in the grass together
• Skipping.
• Cannonball
• Tumbling, somersaults, handstands, but our bodies are too sore and stiff!
• Skip down the block
• drink slurpees
• Flop down and nap wherever I happen to be
• Jump in puddles after a rain storm.
• Skipping!
• fall asleep anywhere
• Go to bed early 
• Say no
• Have no filter when they speak
• Be really loud
• Two that my kids do--randomly hug people and also retreat to a quiet corner when they need to rest/listen to music/have a break from the chaos.
• Not work.
• That would be marvellous
• Not being responsible.

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• Soccer. It’s fun to play and is a true team sport. And apres game is always super fun, often more fun than the game itself.
• Trivial Pursuit (Geography)
• Chatting
• Laser tag because no one gets hurt and you still get that adrenaline pumping with haptic feedback when you get hit.
• I enjoy Wizard - a card game. It requires four people, which means I'm usually among friends when playing. But, as a kid - I recall playing 'The Game of Life' quite often.
• Scrabble. It was a shared and loved activity with my Mum and Grandmother.
• Flag football - such a fun team sport
• Up and down the river card game. It’s a mixture of luck and strategy, you can play with any amount of people and it becomes more and more unpredictable and fun as it goes. I also have really fond memories attached to this game.
• Canasta. Lots of layers.
• Big boss little boss, was obsessed as a kid with the constant possibility of being the boss of my siblings.
• Sardines.. so much anticipation!
• Volleyball. I love being out in the sand and sunshine.
• Clue
• Social games, or truth or dare
• Scrabble it exposes one's vocabulary and imagination.
• Liverpool rummy - chatting and eating while playing
• backgammon
• Basketball
• I recall liking pictionary
• Cribbage
• Firefly. It's a boardgame inspired by the cult-favourite TV show of the same name.
• Word games like Scattergories and Taboo.
• I LOVE Catan.
• Minecraft - I played it with my kids and it's become my fav. You can build and create, unlimited potential.

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• Play is critical for thinking, building relationships, brain engagement, physical and mental health and fun!
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• It should made mandatory for an hour a day in any work place. I have worked 8 years in a centre with a table tennis table and have played max total of 30 mins in 8 years.. Shocking!
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• Adults need more fun ways to connect with other adults. It’s hard to make friends as adults and having fun would help a lot!
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• Play is the cousin of flirting!
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• I want to play forever. Why don’t more of us oldies play?!
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• Playfulness is foundational to spiritual growth
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• All we have to do is marvel at a child playing and realize - we are in a ‘thin place’ when we play. We are present, full of wonder, the closest to joy and deeply connected when we play. It’s the key practice to staying open and curious to what the world might throw our way.
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• It doesn’t even seem fathomable to have fun; to let go and just be playful. It feels like I’ve lost that ability.
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• I honestly don’t know if I even have a desire to play anymore, which feels very sad.
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• "I know I used to be crazy, I know I used to be fun, I know I used to be wild... That's cuz I used to be young" - Miley Cyrus, but also me
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• If I asked you what the opposite of play is, you might be tempted to say work. The scientific definition is actually anxiety and depression.
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• Play is hard as an adult because much of life is taken so seriously. We have traded deep belly laughs for cubicles and emails. I think because we have put so many restrictions on play and what it "should" look like and who can participate that we have lost the ability and perhaps the desire to engage wholeheartedly.
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• Playing keeps my mind and heart young. If it’s playing with my kids, my friends, my lovers, playing and keeping it light and fun is drawing my back to my youth
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• I don't know how to prioritize play at this time in my life, unless it is with my toddler. My time is spent working, playing with my toddler, parenting, advocating for injustices in our world, and then what's left is spent on essential mental and physical wellness (going for walks, pretending to exercise at the gym, seeing my counselor, going to chiro, etc.). It feels like I need to use every available moment right now to (1) make enough money to survive in an expensive city; (2) parent my kid because I'm away so often working; and (3) Learning about our political climate and volunteering to prevent what is happening in the US from happening here - that there is simply not enough time to also play. Maybe I can't play until retirement? That sounds sad, but maybe also just plain practical.
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• I'm so bummed how serious people get as they get older. It sucks the fun out of the people around them.

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• A DJ, ice cream and and a big dance floor. 💃
• Roller coaster, Massive slide (burn free), rideable model railway through neighbouring forest and lakes
• Sea and its shore works for me
• American Ninja warrior and parkour mixed with mountain biking. There would also have to be a lot of trampolines!
• Colourful Adirondack chairs around fire pits, speakers for music, a place to finger-paint and a build-your-own buffet of allthethings. A zipline or bungee situation that allows you to take leaps of courage, all in a safe way. Quiet and Nap Zones, and a bunch of costumes of things that are 'what you wanted to be when you grew up.'
• Playdoh and fingerprinting, sand tray with figurines,
• Treehouses, suspended walkways, rope swings
• A fire pit, gourmet things to roast, a wine bar, a guitar, and people who don’t take themselves too seriously
• Oof. Money pit. Free massages. A place where they put you to sleep and when you wake up every maintenance thing you need is done (dental, haircut, knee replacement). And dodge ball.
• Mattresses, pillows, cozy blankets, shade, sun, beach and cold drinks and salty snacks
• Wave pool, lazy river, grass volleyball court, swing that goes 360 degrees
• Trampolines surrounded by beautifulflowers, rope swings over water, trees made for climbing, forts high up in trees lit by lightening bugs, and hammocks that rocked themselves.
• things to help people create things
• A playground where you can listen to your own music and move and dance and climb and walk and run as a joyful activity versus versus the drudgery of the gym.
• Instead of jumping into a ball pit, I would love a pillow pit.
• Flowers, watering cans, bridges and fish ponds bird houses dogs and cats, and big book house, ice skating with walkers, pools and river walks with current
• a room where you get to break stuff
• giant swings
• A big bed
• Soft surfaces, jumping spots, hot tubs/swimming
• A slide the goes fast but isn’t hard. Like a soft slide but it rips.
• free coffee, free cocktails, painting station, slam poetry competition, skit building
• paint and canvasses, karaoke set up, recording studio setup (for those who play instruments), sport courts, a massive ball pit
• On the water, with a variety of activities - quiet ones and everything in between
• A pub (with any beer on tap or drink), a massive oceanside pool, comfy loungers.