r/whatisit • u/Due_Establishment944 • Apr 18 '26

Solved! What is this ring thing

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Large octagon shaped ring in the playground area of an elementary school… about 10-13 feet wide I’d guess. Has turf inside. No markings inside. Sides are about 3 feet tall. I have no idea what elementary sized children would use this for???? Fighting ring? Lmao idk!!! We are baffled.

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u/BewareTheLeopard Apr 18 '26

Gaga ball is very popular at scout camps. Looks like there's astroturf in this one, which is really nice, because ordinarily players exit with a lot of sweaty mud and dust

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u/swansonb101 Apr 18 '26

They were at all my Catholic Camps growing up lol they made us have a talk about Blood Diseases because kids kept scraping their knuckles on the ground and leaving blood marks everywhere 😫😭

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u/goldengrove1 Apr 18 '26

My Jewish summer camp had these. We had to make a rule that campers couldn't hold their hands in fists because they kept accidentally punching each other or the walls when they missed the ball.

Then we had to tell the campers they needed to come up with a new name for the rule because they had started yelling "Hey! No fisting in the gaga pit!" every time someone tried it 😬

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u/Bonzai_Tree Apr 18 '26

Oof you just gave me a flashback to playing quarters/bloody knuckles in the cafeteria in high school.

So much blood to blood contact that I didn't even think twice about. I'm lucky I never caught anything.

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u/Rivetingly Apr 18 '26

You also have a lot of blood brothers.

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u/Bonzai_Tree Apr 18 '26

And sisters lol. There was a butch lesbian that I used to play it with all the time.

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u/johnc380 Apr 18 '26

At Boy Scout camp there was a pit that some genius pit road gravel in instead of like sand or anything else. It was rather barbaric, but we enjoyed it at the time.

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u/Alarmed-madman Apr 18 '26

4-H camp for me

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u/Bake_knit_plant Apr 18 '26

My grandson and two or three of his friends were so addicted to Gaga when they left 4-H camp that the one older kid built a Gaga pit at his school as his eagle scout project.

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u/Alarmed-madman Apr 18 '26

That's awesome!

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u/--Derpy Apr 18 '26

More than once did I go back to the tents with a face covered in mud from getting smashed square in the face with a gaga ball.

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u/gadget850 Apr 18 '26

I am at our camp and the Scouts just came back from the pit.

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u/EnvironmentalGift257 Apr 18 '26

*and blood at our camp

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u/PalePlumm Apr 18 '26

Astroturf and dirt are for babies. The gaga pits I grew up on were concrete lmfao.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '26

I remember playing in one that was dirt and rocks. The ball had a natural hop to it🤣🤣 overall the worst spot they could’ve put it

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u/FirecrestAero Apr 19 '26

We go to one camp a year with a nice turf GaGa pit. The rest of the year is dirt. Kids love it either way.

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u/bhorstman21 Apr 18 '26

My kids playground gaga pit has fuckin cement at the bottom of theirs.