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brandings
a schoolyard game in which one tries to dodge a tennis ball thrown by whoever is in; universally banned by teachers: We got busted for playing brandings. Compare brandy.
Contributor's comments: Played almost every lunchtime at my primary school on the Central Coast, NSW.
Contributor's comments: Going to school in Sydney in the 80's it was only ever referred to as "brandings".
Contributor's comments: Brandings. We played it in primary school in the 70s in Sydney west subs. A variation was "hospital brandings". In normal brandings everyone ran around the field dodging the ball and if you go thit, you joined the throwing team, till one kid was left! In Hospital branding 5 or so kids stood back to a wall with 1 thrower, if you were hit you couldn't move that limb till after you were hit all over you were out!
Contributor's comments: We always called brandings 'pasties'. I don't know if this was specific to Newcastle or to my school because no one I have spoken to called it pasties but everyone I went to school with knew what it was.
Contributor's comments: We played brandings at lunchtime at primary school in Canberra in the early to mid 1970s.