my cousin and I had an "exercize" game we played on my trampoline when we were like 8. The basic move was called a "sit-down" I think? or "up-down" or something. More or less you jumped to land on your bottom and sprang back up to do it again xD I think we did like 80 of those in a row once xD We had others we did, but I've forgot them all since.

My friends and I would also hold Olympics. Trampolines are seriously the best thing ever for little kids. Especially since ours was in the shade and had a jungle gym next to it we would use as base when playing stuff like Chip the Dip and stuff xD

Oh man, we seriously had so many games on that trampoline. Trip the Dip was where one person was the Dip and they had to roll around on the trampoline and everyone else would jump around them, and if the Dip tagged you you were dipped and had to be it then xD like tag but you have to roll xD

Some guys whose dad my dad worked with also played with us sometimes, and the older one I guess watched DBZ or some sort of anime, because he would do these, what I presume were "Super Saiyan" moves (I never remembered how to say what he called it, but just judging from how they were and when and that he was a young teenage boy, I've made inferences xD)

One day, two of my friends who probably played the most with me on there were at my house when the company that owns the microwave tower in our pasture was replacing the dishes on the tower. They had a huge wooden spool left in our yard, so we decided to claim it. It took all three of us to roll that 6ft tall spool about 50 feet to get it right next to teh trampoline, and for years it served as a shoe rack and general access point for the trampoline. Also if you started to feel sick or hurt, you could sit on it and not worry about people jouncing you.

The spool and the trampoline are both gone now; rotted away (the trampoline was well over ten years old when it left) and replaced in the summer by a medium sized above ground pool, and actually my parents have gotten a new trampoline for my nephews, but it has those dumb nets on it. We never had safety nets and I think we were better off for it.

As for nontrampoline games, the two friends that would come over most often were actually sisters, and their grandparents lived about a mile down the road, so we'd walk between our houses some summer days (despite the threat of mean dogs :O) or get someone to drive us, or a few times, I rode our fourwheeler there xD And their grandparents had a goat pen. We pretty much either spent all our time in the goat pen (it spanned several wooded acres) or in their rooms in the house. In the goatpen, there were little trails and little plank bridges across a small creek. There was a little clearing by the creek where we'd play indians in and stuff. Sometimes we'd leave the pen to go hike down to the real creek. They lived right next to the Girl Scout Camp (that has since been sold and is private property now, but that never bothered us any) which had decade old trails leading down to Galla Creek. My mom said she had been baptized down there eons ago :] But upstream, there was a waterfall, and we'd go up there and set up our tribal government, because there were rocks that were exactly seat shaped. There was also a little hunting hut up there, that I have no clue who owned it, but we'd go and look at it and wonder whose it was.

Of course the younger of the sisters and I would play barbie, where we had one Ken doll designated gay, which lead to much hilarity back in the day. Other dolls were occasionally strippers. and actually all that made me uncomfortable then because why were these people my age concerned with gays and strippers?

Oh the innocence of youth