What was your favorite day in Phys Ed and why was it parachute day?

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NW_Forester@reddit

I always found parachute days unbelievably boring and it shocks me how many people liked it. I would have rather had to do Presidential Fitness Test than parachute day. I think Line Dancing was the only PE activity I disliked more than parachute day.

My favorite PE days were when we were playing a sport that only existed in gym class for the average kid. I.e. "wall-e-ball", kick ball, dodge ball, etc.

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Ryuujin_13@reddit

Then, now, and always: Dodgeball. Even today I would kill for a proper game of dodgeball.

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Traditional_Isopod80@reddit

I was always picked last though 😕

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Ryuujin_13@reddit

Good. Then you can take those bastards by surprise!

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Traditional_Isopod80@reddit

Exactly!

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QuesoPantera@reddit

Are adult dodgeball leagues not a thing where you live? There's loads of em ranging from competitive to super drunk.

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IHkumicho@reddit

My local city rec league has dodgeball teams. Signed up for one when we missed out on kickball for one season.

Holy shit mid-40s me almost had a heart attack trying to keep up with a bunch of 20 year olds.

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QuesoPantera@reddit

definitely more of a late 20's scene I've found, but there's some over-the-hillers there for sure! Not for me anymore, it's only a matter of time before I sprain or pull something. Gotta take things more slow and deliberate these days.

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IHkumicho@reddit

Definitely held my own as a mid-40s player...

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Ryuujin_13@reddit

They used to be! I was in a league for a few years (thanks Dodgeball movie for the spike in popularity!) but then it folded.

There have been some others that come and go, but outside of some some casual rec games that get organized, no. Right now a Google shows one super-casual that meets once a month, and a university-level super-competitive travel team. I’m firmly somewhere in between.

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

I loved dodgeball so much. Our school’s version was called Medic because you could rescue your teammates by dragging them to the back wall. It was played with big yarn balls. I could not understand why people hated dodgeball until I learned that some schools played it with balls that hurt when they hit you.

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Ryuujin_13@reddit

As a person with a life-long hearing issue thanks to dodgeball, I feel that. I really do.

And our variant was called King's Court. There was a line at the back of your zone where a player eliminated from the other side had to go to, and they could get back in if they eliminated you, so you had to watch every direction.

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Ltimbo@reddit

This should be the top comment. Those cherry red balls are the best. Great for kickball too.

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APOC_V@reddit

Dodgeball all day with kickball in a very close second place.

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Ryuujin_13@reddit

Oh yeah, still love a little kickball!

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saison257@reddit

There are adult kickball leagues all across the U.S. I met some of my best friends playing kickball and going to the league bar afterwards every week.

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

I played in my 20’s, it was rad

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saison257@reddit

We just had someone standing at 1st and 3rd with coolers full of Jello shots haha

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

Sounds like a rad variant. Did you have to do the shots before advancing?

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saison257@reddit

Not as a requirement. There were some people/teams in the league who were still really hard-core about the game, but when we played teams that were similarly there to be social and get drunk, then it became a game within a game

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

Ah regular kickball league but with some Hello shots lol, I can see that. We were definitely there more the pregame and postgame, but yeah sometimes a team with high socks and soccer shoes would show and you knew it was going to a long night. My team was terrible, but it was almost all people we knew and partied with. Midway through the season I started running until I either scored or they got me out, it was actually pretty successful I scored probably 30 percent of the time that way.

I had a good method to deal with the bunters too while pitching, I would will it up really slow so it’s barely moving by the time it gets there then run up and guard the bunt line.

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

Yes!

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Cisru711@reddit

The variation in high school was you could shoot at the baskets on the other side of the gym and if you made it, a teammate could reenter. Led to some miracle comebacks.

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pogulup@reddit

I hated parachute day. It meant no dodgeball.

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Ryuujin_13@reddit

Exactly!

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UraniumRocker@reddit

On rainy days we would play a version of soccer. But it was played on our backs with a giant beach ball inside the gym.

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Mek0nr@reddit

Damnit I miss the early 80’s.. Core memory unlocked! 😭🥲

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LukeMatrix007@reddit

I always loved it when we got to play dodgeball even though I broke my wrist one time while bracing my fall. :)

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squanchmysquanchhole@reddit

Parachute day was incredible, but the addition of those bouncy balls you would get on with the handle on top to bounce under the parachute was peak Phys Ed.

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TheBackSpin@reddit

How did all of our schools have a parachute? As a kid I thought it was just ours

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Wesmom2021@reddit

Scooter day

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thelizardlarry@reddit

Least favorite day: Jump Rope For Heart

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cashews_clay15@reddit

When we got to ride those little…trikes? You moved it with the handlebars but didn’t pedal. Help me out here.

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

I remember what you’re talking about, but I can’t remember their name either! They were different than the butt scooters.

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cashews_clay15@reddit

Roller racers, I just found them! And they still sell them!

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Junie_Wiloh@reddit

We called them butt scooters. We played butt tag with them lol

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theloop82@reddit

We used to call this field day- we got orange/cream sherbet cups with wooden spoons. Good times

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Nonsenseinabag@reddit

Yes, field day! We did ours the last day of the school year, it was always a lot of fun.

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Truth_Seeker963@reddit

My absolute favourite day, which happened so rarely.

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Nonsenseinabag@reddit

Yeah, I think we only did it two or three times across my entire time in school. Such an exciting day to see it come out!

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rm78noir@reddit

Dodgeball was my favorite day.

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Glittering-Station78@reddit

This and square dancing. I’m probably the only one.

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Delgadoduvidoso@reddit

We had obstacle course day usually twice a year in elementary school.

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JBNY2025@reddit

Nobody said Tinikling yet 😭

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SinnerSpawn@reddit

I was always down for a good game of Red Rover, even though it always ended with at least 2 kids heading to the nurses office.

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Kukukachoooo26@reddit

And scooter day!

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rharper38@reddit

Why was it just one day? It was the Pretzel Day of the Elementary school year.

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p4rc0pr3s1s@reddit

Floor hockey in middle school was my jam. Even played in the after school intermural league. Best quarters of 7th and 8th grade.

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slouchenheimer@reddit

This has been going on for decades. It's as generational as drinking water.

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Independent-Big1966@reddit

Crab soccer

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

The obstacle course. The closest I got to Double Dare.

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

Obstacle course day was totally my favorite day!

Looking back, elementary school PE was so great. Our teacher was always so positive and energetic. I hope life was awesome to you, Ms. Lee, wherever you are!

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ughyoujag@reddit

Double Dare was my fucking dream

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cigarandcreamsoda@reddit

That or maybe those little butt scooters that served some essential fitness function.

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

Ah the butt scooters. I loved them. My spouse, however, broke both of his adult front teeth off as a child in PE in an incident involving a butt scooter, a jump rope, and his face slamming into the floor. I’m kind of surprised they’re still as popular as they are.

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Room234@reddit

Butt scooters was my #2.

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manguy12@reddit

Weird way of saying going number 2

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Arriwyn@reddit

Yes! We had "Scooter Town" set up in the big Gym in the Spring. Butt scooters with roads made of color tape and road signs . My guess is they were teaching us driver's Ed early. Lol 😂

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

Phrasing?

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Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit

Turtles?

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plantsplantsplaaants@reddit

I loved those things so dang much! I had the opportunity to try one recently and I was devastated to learn that they don’t really work for adults. They probably have a 100lb weight limit or something cause it just wasn’t gonna roll with me on it

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BarleyBo@reddit

We did butt scooter hockey.

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Cisru711@reddit

And a giant ball for a crazy soccer match.

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username__0000@reddit

I would always run over my own fingers. lol those seemed fun but apparently I’m not coordinated enough for them.

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Mmphska@reddit

Butt scooters!!

Im sure it's not allowed anymore because of stupid "fingers" and "liabilities"

Learning how to not get your fingers run over WAS part of the physical education and it is a valuable skill that's best learned early

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Junie_Wiloh@reddit

It was butt scooters for me. They were more fun than Parachute Day. We played "Butt Tag" with them.

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emc_lmt@reddit

Also these scooters

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Rombonius@reddit

parachute day was lame, i liked soccer baseball (kickball)

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nodogsallowed23@reddit

I hated the parachute. I never understood what was fun about it? Legitimately, I didn’t get it. Can someone explain the fun part?

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Farahild@reddit

Here in the Netherlands we play a game in pe in primary school that’s called “apenkooi” (monkey cage). And it’s basically the teacher getting out all of the pe equipment at once, building a parcours and then you play tag on it. you’re not allowed to touch the floor (like the floor is lava).

It’s epic and always the best day of the year in pe!

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AceChronometer@reddit

Butt scooters sat like a forbidden fruit until the two times a year that we used them and pure bedlam ensued.

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THRSALWYSNXTYR@reddit

No parachute, no inflatable ball, no fun little scooters, giant inflatable balls or rock walls. We didn't have any line dancing either. We did, however, have Mr. Baker who loved to turn gym class into exercise station boot camp for weeks at a time.

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DizzyIzzy801@reddit

Tell me you went to Catholic school without telling me you went to Catholic school?

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No_Raisin_250@reddit

I still remember every step to that stupid square dance they taught us.

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runjeanmc@reddit

Our gym teacher always had us get in four lines and run laps in formation. When we got back to the start, I always thought he was calling us "Eddies." I didn't figure out he was probably prior military and saying "at ease" until some random day 30+ years later 😅

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ughyoujag@reddit

Man. You missed out on the real gym class experience, except I don’t remember anyone ever having rock walls. And it was square dancing, not line dancing

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THRSALWYSNXTYR@reddit

Lotta schools got rock walls in the 90s

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ughyoujag@reddit

Not where I grew up, but I believe you that they existed some places

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Remote_Independent50@reddit

My wife, who's a couple years younger than me. She really did not believe me when I told her that our parachute was an actual parachute.

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justtapitin65@reddit

There were few things this non-athlete liked about gym class with the exception of the parachute, scooters, and the plastic scoops!

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ItsMattyDavid@reddit

Circus week! I learned to ride a unicycle. Could play basketball on one and everything.

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RyanEversley@reddit

"Now you go under..... Now I go under...." - Mike Birbiglia

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NotHelmut@reddit

I loved parachute day, but also tug of war and gymnastics. I remember doing the parallel bars in gym and I thought it was fun.

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RyanEversley@reddit

We had the same thing at my public school in Gwinnett County, Ga, loved those Gymnastic days!

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

Rope climb was lit

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VioletVenable@reddit

OMG, I was such an indoors child and hated gym with a passion. But after Christmas break, we had a month of gymnastics followed by a month of hockey (much of which involved butt scooters), and that was just my favorite time ever.

(Especially the gymnastics part, which — thanks to twice-weekly ballet classes — I was actually pretty decent at. Wild to not be loathed by my classmates for an hour three times a week!)

Unfortunately, that magic period was followed by a month of volleyball, when I would suddenly somehow become tubercular on gym days once more…

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ughyoujag@reddit

You had gymnastics? Did you go to a fancy schools?

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NotHelmut@reddit

He set it up as stations and we'd just have random days with gymnastics as the theme. We had a low beam, the parallel bars, and some tumbling mats and students would just rotate through the stations. He was always at the parallel bars station to instruct/assist.

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NotHelmut@reddit

Not really. I suspect the gym teacher had some background in gymnastics and made it happen. He seemed really agile.

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ughyoujag@reddit

That makes sense that a gymnastics program would depend on the skills of the gym teacher more than the fanciness of a school. I know sure as shit I wouldn’t have wanted my gym teachers supervising that kind of activity lol

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Ramen_Addict_@reddit

I always thought parachute day was kinda dumb, tbh. We had uneven bars and I loved to play on those. I also found rope climb day to be mildly entertaining for some unknown reason.

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TheThrivingest@reddit

When they pulled the wooden apparatus away from the wall and the mats on the floor

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Pretend-Menu-8660@reddit

It’s was parachute day AND scooter day!

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PickleFlavordPopcorn@reddit

If there was an event to do the parachute as an adult I’d pay upwards of $50 to attend

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SunshineInDetroit@reddit

There was a vid.from when I was in college of some college kids buying the parachute and playing the game in view of a dorm

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SunshineInDetroit@reddit

Red and yellow and pink and green Purple and orange and blue

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bjgrem01@reddit

Nah. 10th grade gym for me. In 10th grade, my gym teacher didn't care at all. Dress out and get an A. I spent the whole year playing poker and bourré.

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S_A_R_K@reddit

Rainy days our elementary school PE teacher would let us play his pachinko machines

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gigorbust@reddit

Getting paired up with my crush for square dancing

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Urbitchassmum@reddit

In middle school they had rollerblades for us. That was fun. Also the rock wall.

I took yoga in high school for PE- we still had to do a weekly campus run. But I had a lot of fun

I graduated in 2010

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The_best_is_yet@reddit

i loved the parachute!

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krissym99@reddit

As one of the youngest, smallest, and clumsiest kids in my grade, parachute dad was one of the days in gym class that wasn't utterly humiliating for me. And yes, it was fun!

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erindizmo@reddit

Right there with you!

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Room234@reddit

War ball

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marbotty@reddit

Bombardment

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baron-von-buddah@reddit

Bombardment!

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erindizmo@reddit

It was Bombardo for us.

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Aol_awaymessage@reddit

I loved dodgeball. We used the real rubber kickballs. Loved that PING when it hit someone in the head.

We also played frisbee elimination on the football field. And that was just dodgeball with frisbees. This girl with braces caught one in the mouth and she was gushing blood.

At recess we’d play asses up. Without getting into the full mechanics of it, if you fucked up 3X you got the letters ASS and had to stand against a wall execution style and get pegged by everyone playing (usually a tennis ball)

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nsfw_orca_2@reddit

I remember we had a game called Shark when you ran under the parachute and switched with someone.

We had another game where we tried to pass a ball between separate parachutes.

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tashichica@reddit

Butt scooters were so much fun!!

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Quick_Effort594@reddit

Rope climb, parachute, personal favorite was these puffy balls that we had seemingly hundreds of, you'd have essentially a dodgeball game only with hundreds of these things flying through the air, so much fun

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djbuttplay@reddit

Crab walk circle name called out get to blast the huge rainbow ball into the wall.

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Fast_Satisfaction484@reddit

I like the one time in six years they unfolded that jungle gym on the wall and just let us have at it. One time.

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NeurospicyCapybara@reddit

My favorite days of phys ed were the days the teacher wasn’t at class, and we did our own non-gym things.

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Lokii11@reddit

I STILL think about that parachute and wonder, can I get one now?

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church-basement-lady@reddit

Yep. Search any school supply store. The really huge ones are more expensive but here is a 20 footer for less than $200: https://www.discountschoolsupply.com/play-learn/active-play/gross-motor/excellerations-brawny-tough-rainbow-parachute---20dia-/p/2693

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Lokii11@reddit

Thank you!!!

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church-basement-lady@reddit

You're welcome! Now I am contemplating..... a full size one would serve as a LOT of summertime entertainment for the whole neighborhood. https://www.schoolspecialty.com/sportime-gripstarchute-colorful-parachute-with-30-handles-30-foot-diameter-1361480

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this_knee@reddit

I blame parachute day for my propensity towards wanting to remain in pilllow/blanket forts.

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wonkybiitch@reddit

It was that feeling when the parachute went all the way up. So much fun!!

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Salty_Emu_9945@reddit

Parachute. Man it was the best day ever when that came out. Also including the TV on the cart and the VHS tape was actually something you wanted to watch.....

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osddelerious@reddit

I do this with students at my school, and every grade loves it up to grade 6.

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Smoky1279@reddit

I don't remember ever seeing the big parachute during my elementary years.

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No_Raisin_250@reddit

Same I’ve never seen this parachute.

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SoTiredYouDig@reddit

Same. I don’t even know what it is.

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ughyoujag@reddit

You poor bastard. Parachute days are a core memory

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meltedchocolatepants@reddit

That and stomach scooter days

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

I still have a scar on my chin and trauma from the five stitches that I got. For whatever reasons, the numbing didn't work and I felt it as I was being stitched up

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ughyoujag@reddit

I actually have a childhood memory of feeling every stitch. Everyone thought I was scared and being dramatic, but it hurt like hell

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Fairycharmd@reddit

you had to lay on your stomach??

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Knotar3@reddit

The stomach wasn't the issue, it was your poor fingers after getting ran over 20 times.

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meltedchocolatepants@reddit

Yeah, imagine sturdier foam kickboards (that you use for swimming) but with wheels on them. We would be on our butts or stomach

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ughyoujag@reddit

Yes! We had scooter races days, too. Sometimes on the stomach, sometimes backwards, sometimes frontwards

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cellrdoor2@reddit

But always over your fingers at some point.

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ughyoujag@reddit

Oh yes, that’s a given. Unless you were on your stomach, running over fingers is a constant risk on those things

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Gonna_do_this_again@reddit

So many crushed fingers

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theladyroy@reddit

YES. Also known as The Day of Smashed Fingers.

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ButterscotchAware402@reddit

Stomach?! We had to sit on our butts and run over or fingers.

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Lokii11@reddit

Ha! Memory unlocked!

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Available_Road5272@reddit

Inflating it then elevating before crawling under it was top tier fun.

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ughyoujag@reddit

I remember our gym teacher would yell out months, and if it was your birthday month you would run to the other side. Among other parachute games.

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Available_Road5272@reddit

Haha yes. Just showed it to my teen, he remembered it from elementary school and loved it also.
Clearly an intergenerational hit.

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ughyoujag@reddit

My gym teacher was sooooo ahead of the curve. She had us playing pickleball in the 9th grade. A million years before it would take over a nation

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icelax99@reddit

She was a time-traveler

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ughyoujag@reddit

Coulda been. She was wry and wise like Doc Brown, with her own wild hair

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Available_Road5272@reddit

She really was!

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ughyoujag@reddit

RIP Ms. Long

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Few-Cable5130@reddit

I think our school district just had one that rotated around, so it was only a once or twice a year event!

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thejunkmanadv@reddit

Same here. I think this was more of a 90's thing. Or maybe a city school thing? I went to a rural school.

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drainbamage1011@reddit

It was a 90s thing.

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icybowler3442@reddit

I was born in 1978- I definitely did this in the 80’s. By the time the 90’s rolled around, I was in middle school and playing sport-flavored sports in gym class.

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csonnich@reddit

I went to school in a small town in the 80s, and we had parachute day every year. It was amazing.

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PMcOuntry@reddit

Can confirm parachute days in the early 80s in my school.

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thejunkmanadv@reddit

Must have been regional, until later it became more common. Did not grow up with it.

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MulberryEastern5010@reddit

I went to a rural school, and we had parachute day

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Equal_Imagination300@reddit

Are you really one of us? 🤔

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BelligerentNixster@reddit

My 4th grader was talking about it the other day and I was legit ready to go volunteer to help just because it was maybe the coolest school activity that I ever got to participate in!

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FUCancer_2008@reddit

I saw it for the younger kids, I was jealous.

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Logical-Cherry9395@reddit

I lived in a Military town. We had HUGE ones left over from Vietnam and WWII. I'm debating buying a smaller one off Amazon to play with my kids.

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No-Salt4637@reddit

My sister and her husband bought one and our kids love it.

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

Sorry nerds, dodgeball

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Lonely-Geologist-791@reddit

We had parachute practice so much our skin wore off our fingers. Then they had all the schools go to the stadium and do a routine. Our parents were invited and were very confused.

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throwawayhbgtop81@reddit

Honestly? It was the one day the gym teacher wasn't a bully.

He absolutely was too, like so many got bullied by him. He'd be fired today.

But even parachute day seemed to mellow him out and suppress whatever monster in him that made him a monster.

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HopeRemarkable8857@reddit

For sure parachute day. The parachute was so big it was like another world under there.

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EnvironmentalDot127@reddit

Dodge ball

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lumberjackname@reddit

I really thought we were going to be parachuting and I was devastated to find out we would just be sitting under it and making it ripple.

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Ok-Cartographer-4226@reddit

Star Wars Capture the Flag

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RjIvan52@reddit

Dodge ball every Friday. We could also play Wednesday after school, all grades and even a couple of volleyballs thrown in. 3rd graders up to 5th graders. I miss those days.

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glorious-turtle-4726@reddit

Parachute with balls on top going wild. Name a more iconic duo

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runjeanmc@reddit

We always laid on the ground with only our heads inside. Everyone went nuts for that.

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Mundane_Ad3184@reddit

The balls were 10/10 and then getting inside and closing it quickly from inside while sitting on the edge was also the bomb.

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Appropriate-Diver301@reddit

Did anyone else have soccer baseball? I am starting to think it may have been regional.

My favourite days were the track and field days and the Canada Fitness Days. I was really good at those. Ball sports....not so much. But I always got ribbons in the track stuff.

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Andi_Lou_Who@reddit

We never had that at my school but we did have “apparatus” which was just that wooden equipment like wall racks and climbing ropes and we always played in our underwear which was a vest and pants along with plimsoles for shoes.

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FormidableMistress@reddit

Nah it was the hippity hops. The PE teacher at my elementary school would open a closet door and dozens of them would all come tumbling out. We had all different sizes.

No one ever knows what I'm talking about.

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grandma_millennial@reddit

The balls with the handles that you bounced on?

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FormidableMistress@reddit

Yep. these. Ours were made of the same red rubber the kickballs were made of though. They were extremely durable.

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grandma_millennial@reddit

Not sure I would trust the amazon version of these. Seems like a broken tailbone waiting to happen 😂

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FormidableMistress@reddit

Lol that's fair.

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marbotty@reddit

It’s true, I don’t know what you’re talking about

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Spacehopper76@reddit

aka spacehoppers in the UK

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59apache01@reddit

My school was too poor to have anything like this.....

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musashi-swanson@reddit

Field day! Last day of school, and in first grade fell on my birthday, and I won the race for fastest kid. (Peaked at age 6)

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Bright_Respect_1279@reddit

It felt like you were in another world for a little while!! 🌎 💕🥹

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

I always used to wonder where they actually got the parachute in the first place

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church-basement-lady@reddit

Just about all school supply stores have them. Our church has a rainbow parachute - no surprise that the youth director who bought it is in her 40s. 😄

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MotoFuzzle@reddit

Wiggling on seats with wheels day.
Parachute day.
Swing from the gym ceiling with legs through the Olympic rings day.

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ProfZussywussBrown@reddit

Parachute day was obviously number one, but following behind that was a gigantic red ball we called the tomato ball

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VioletVenable@reddit

My elementary school had a very firm delineation between K-2 and 3-5. The upper grades were on the second floor, had homework, got real responsibilities and punishments, etc. Major shift for us kids.

Anyway, the parachute went away then, too.

Except for the final gym class of 5th grade. Our hard-ass bitch of a gym teacher (who was actually a nice lady) brought back the parachute. And all of us, who felt so terribly grown-up yet also terrified of the very adult world of middle school, were elated.

Jeez, we were bred for nostalgia, weren’t we?

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xeroid051@reddit

Floor hockey or dodgeball.. parachutes are for babies

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Brad23212@reddit

It wasn’t, we used to do an obstacle course set across the gym where the teacher would turn his back to us and we would have to advance and hide. If he turned around and saw you were out. The goal was to get to the end undetected. Those were the days!!!

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DoctorAvailable6601@reddit

Dodge ball and the scooter races, worse day was that horrible square dancing shit.

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s-multicellular@reddit

Our hip hop kids revolted and talked the gym teacher into letting her show the class some moves said Something like ‘as long as it is cardio and coordinated.’

She gained a lot of points then really. She seemed to really enjoy the lesson. Lol even if she did veto a few moves for being “too adult.”

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FriskyDingoOMG@reddit

Rope climbing. I used to get a funny feeling in my pelvis and would climb it over and over again 😂

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s-multicellular@reddit

I got to be quite good at climbing it without using my legs….because I was trying to avoid the obviousness of that funny feeling.

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Cisru711@reddit

Uh.

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Arriwyn@reddit

Scooter Town!

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keetojm@reddit

Parachute days was a treat, I loved dodgeball as well, and kickball.

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standuphilospher@reddit

I only had one parachute day in all my years of school . I still consider it the best school day I ever had.

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Dangerous-Clock2617@reddit

Under the parachute in gym class is where I had my first kiss in kindergarten.

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Editor-Dizzy@reddit

I almost never got in trouble as a child. But one day I didn’t clean my desk to my teacher’s satisfaction (adult diagnosed ADHD). My punishment was to sit out during PE. It was parachute day. I am still not over it. It’s my villain origin story.

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99anan99@reddit

Loved it whenever we did dodge ball.

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habs306@reddit

Red rover lol

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AuntiLou@reddit

Volleyball days

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kdavis0315@reddit

I loathed that damn parachute. We could be running or playing dodge ball or baseball or any actual sport. I could barely contain my anger walking into P E and seeing that darn thing. It was the only time I was glad gym was over and we could go back to class

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Greedy_Street_891@reddit

I would lose my mind on that day.

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Cisru711@reddit

Reading these makes me wonder how so many schools had the same equipment and game rotations. Was there a national curriculum?

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palmateer@reddit

We did this my first day of kindergarten, when I knew nothing about elementary school, nor sarcasm. The coach came out with the parachute and said “This is a parachute. Who’s ready to jump out of a plane?” It scared the shit out of me. I thought he was serious and that elementary school wasn’t going to work out for me at all.

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Late-Arrival-8669@reddit

Yes I loved this day, all through elementary school..

Why, dunno but good question!

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pattybanjo@reddit

Climbing the rope!

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CatsEqualLife@reddit

Nah, it was all about Red Rover especially in fourth and fifth when the size differential meant you could absolutely watch a smaller classmate get utterly smashed to the ground.

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Crotchslush@reddit

3rd grade, remember this well. Was pulled out of field day early while using the parachute. Was given a cabbage patch kid Koosa as a “gift” as I was transported to another town and new home only to finish 3rd grade where they had no parachute :(

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Certain_Accident3382@reddit

Ya'll. Amazon has one right now, 12ft for $30. 24ft for $90.

....who else suddenly has the best worst idea ever....

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yindseyl@reddit

Wallball 4 ever!

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epcot_1982@reddit

We had this obstacle course that would be set up that filled the entire gym. Balance beams, monkey bars, rings, rope climb, and then this massive structure called “the mountain” that was really just like a 25 foot tall jungle gym essentially but it was covered in tarps and had hand holds and such. It was the best thing ever and I looked forward to it every year.

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Mudcreek47@reddit

We didn't have a rainbow colored one. Ours was just a gigantic army green one. But I can still remember the fun!

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

What the hell is going on that they had this gigantic parachute in a closet and could’ve used it all the fucking time but it only came out like once a year.

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distant_diva@reddit

haha mine was dodgeball!

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Pumperkin@reddit

We didn't have the parachute at school but at daycare. Still a big day for little me! Best gym day for me was murderball on the butt scooters.

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spderweb@reddit

Dodgeball.

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lifeat24fps@reddit

We had scooter day. 😑

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a_seventh_knot@reddit

I think my school had to rent ours. We only ever had it like once a year.

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

On rope climbing day, after we all had a chance to try climbing the ropes, the gym teacher let us all take turns swinging on them.

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Hero-of-Desserts@reddit

For me, it was Floor Hockey until I got in an argument with the teacher about what constitutes a goal. I argued real hockey rules where the puck has to completely cross the line and he argued football rules where the puck just has to break the line.

He only won because he was the teacher.

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Webster117@reddit

Parachute was good, but it paled in comparison to the day “the apparatus” was unfolded from the wall.

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C_est_la_vie9707@reddit

This and pillow polo. I am woefully unathletic but I was strangely good at pillow polo.

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beeswax_swiffer@reddit

This and little floor scooter day

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ChonkyGloves@reddit

BOMBARDMENT!

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Dimplefrom-YA@reddit

project adventure

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Sensitive-Review-712@reddit

At the end of parachute day, we would fling it up and duck underneath, lie down, and let it drift down over us gently. Mr. K would turn the lights off, and we lie there in the quiet gym waiting for the silk to settle over us. I'd love that sense of peace and stillness again.

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Background-Step-8528@reddit

Oh my gosh I forgot about this!

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Katniprose45@reddit

Parachute day was added to cancel out square dancing day.

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Fantastic_Slide_8994@reddit

To parachute day!

https://youtube.com/shorts/3bDPJlPpfs4?si=s2Q1TGSzGAikK04b

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MossyJoke@reddit

Bombardment > Dodge Ball > Parachute Thingy

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NimbexWaitress@reddit

1982 here, parachute day forever

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a-type-of-pastry@reddit

It was definitely those floor scooter things. We would launch ourselves into our friends with zero protection, just bodies slamming into bodies and kids crying every 5 minutes.

It was great.

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Feralest_Baby@reddit

I was recently pleased to find out that my kids still play with a parachute in PE.

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pastinaisgreat@reddit

As grade schoolers we were told by the student teacher that the parachute was our gym teacher's dirty underwear. We all screamed and dropped it.

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serioperocabron@reddit

Flag football and parachute day.

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Gonna_do_this_again@reddit

Parachute day was probably why I was so willing to do hallucinogens later in life

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cellrdoor2@reddit

Parachute day was definitely the best. Did anyone else play a jumping game with a shoe attached to the end of a long rope? Our teacher would have us stand on one of the painted circles and measure out enough rope to at the shoe would reach just beyond where we were standing. They would then stand in the middle and swing it around while we all jumped it. Or missed and then it totally took you down.

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anongirl55@reddit

My daughter came home from school a few weeks ago and said she had so much fun in PE because they ran under a big, colorful sheet. I was like, "Um, you mean a parachute?" 😂

Glad to see her PE teacher is bringing back the classics.

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Fun-Complaint-4724@reddit

Oh come on! No way jose. Capture The Flag > Parachute Day, all day every day.

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WasteOfBerries@reddit

I want to make a joke but keep getting distracted by awesome memories of parachute day.

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quarterlybreakdown@reddit

Still chasing that high

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snoopmt1@reddit

Safety town. Rode around on floor scooters learning traffic laws.

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Harlockarcadia@reddit

I loved those wheels you sat on and spun the center to spin yourself around, I definitely almost barfed a few times on those things

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walkinghrviolation86@reddit

Gonna be honest kick ball was always my favorite. That or 4 square.

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FunYandGaming@reddit

Never seen this before. Where did you guys go to school?

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SplakyD@reddit

I feel so deprived that I didn't get parachute day. I hear everyone talking about it and it sounded fun. My wife went to the same elementary school I did five years afterwards, and she got to. I guess I liked bowling day and dodgeball, but my favorite was when they brought out these flat plastic boards with handles on the side and rollers on the bottom and you sat down on them had races using only your feet. They'd always tip over mash a few kids' fingers though.

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vindahlia@reddit

Scooter Town!!

(not my pic, but close enough)

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sljxuoxada@reddit

I'm Canadian. Floor hockey was always my favourite PE day.

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MulberryEastern5010@reddit

It was the one truly fun day in gym class when there was absolutely no competition

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Strange_Airships@reddit

These things were magical. My favorite was when we’d all sit down on the inside edge and just exist in a rainbow dome for a bit.

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ahawk99@reddit

No, for me it was those little scooters that crushed your fingers when you ride on them. 👍

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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

My aunt was a gym teacher and she brought the parachute out for every family party. Holy shit is that thing fun!

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redditshy@reddit

Scooters.

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RepresentativeAd7934@reddit

I love that day and using it to play duck duck goose! Rural NC late 80's early 90's.

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Available_Road5272@reddit

Same (: But semi-rural NC

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Fairycharmd@reddit

idk those little wheeled boards were pretty damn fun until you had your fingers rolled over the first time

then that day sucked

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MadamInsta@reddit

Parachute day with the mechanic's "creepers" to race back and forth.

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Skipper0463@reddit

Any day was better than square dancing, or learning The Electric Slide. Gymnastics week was fun, but one year my friend broke his wrist and couldn’t go to karate practice with me anymore.

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Mike9797@reddit

Growing up here in the Toronto area we would always do an end of school year play day where we had a bunch of competitions and games to compete against and whatever team had the most points at the end of the day won. It was a big deal and the day most of us looked forward to all year long. We also did one in the winter for the Bonhomme de Neige festival and had a similar play day with winter themed games. Those were the best dsys.

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JeanEtrineaux@reddit

Dodgeball. No question.

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Senior-Design-7220@reddit

Yes

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CherryCherry5@reddit

My favorite day in gym was any day that I didn't have to compete in any kind of way. The parachute was a once a year occurance (for unexplainable reasons, afaik), which I guess was why it felt special to me.

Gym class sucked 1000% from grade 1 - 8 because of the same handful of super sporty boys who effortlessly succeeded at everything in gym and made it absolutely miserable for others. I never had fun in gym until I switched to a different high school than the rest of my childhood classmates were going to.

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