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No distinction was made between game, sport, and recreation, all of which might be mea pāʻani.

• Related:
  • English-Hawaiian entries: archery, bowling, box, cartwheel, checkers, cock-fighting, dive, fence, gamble, guess, hide-and-seek, hopscotch, jacks, juggle, kite, marbles, mumble-the-peg, pole vault, quoits, race, ring and ball game, ringtoss, shot-put, somersault, stilt, string figure, swing, tag, top, tug-of-war, wrestling.
  • For game chants, see holohiʻa, punikihi.
  • Complete defeat in a game, make pilau.
  • Place for indoor games, lōkū.
  • Games of strength: hāʻawe, honuhonu, hukihuki, kā mākoi kanaka, kano, kulaʻi wāwae, kulakulaʻi, māmaka, pā uma, pāʻumeʻume, uma.
  • Games with stones, sticks, clubs, spears: āneo, holoholo, hoʻolei pōpō, kaʻōkaʻa, kaupua, keʻa lāʻau, keʻa pua, kiniholo, kinipeki, kūhela, kulakula, lāʻau ʻpili, lele puni, noʻa, ʻōʻō ihe, paheʻe, paheʻe ʻulu, pāhiʻuhiʻu, palaʻie, pōhā kīhelei, pūhenehene (Cf. kihi moe, kihi puka), pūʻili, puʻupuʻuone.
  • Card games: hai-lō-keaha, kāmau, kekake, konoki, male, nuʻuanu, piula.
  • Sexual games: kilu, ʻume, pili, loku.
  • Miscellaneous games: aho loa, honohono, hoʻolelekē, kōhikōhi-kū-palalā, kōī, kū-hele-mai (kū-ā-hele-mai), leʻoleʻo, loulou, mimi hoʻokahekahe wai, moa, moa nahele, naʻinaʻi, nāʻū, pahaʻo, pahipahi, pili lima, pinao, pio, polepole, pūkaula, punikihi, punipeki.
• References:
  • See Mitchell.