What did people do for fun at Tudor times?

Answer 1

they danced to welsh music they played leapfrog-circle and stick-barrel-handstand-rolleypolies and they played Bowling but with pins that they would stand up themselves and they also used to work,and they used to have the Sunday of like us

Answer 2

They hunted, watched acrobats and jesters, watched masques, sang and danced and played instruments such as the virginals and a lute. Women embroidered, read books and gossiped, men hunted, jousted and took part in Archery competitions.

Answer 3

They Played Loads of Games such as Threshing the chicken, Bear Baiting, football (which was not entirely similar as today's football, the football in the Tudor times were really Violent and was quite similar to rugby)...They Made Loads of friends on their streets and played with them, swimming was common.. and so on. Tudors entertained themselves by cruelty to animals and people.. :(.

Answer 4

Children in Tudor times played many of the same sort of games that modern children play, like hide and seek, blindman's buff etc. These sort of games were also played by adults in tudor times. In a game called Hoodman Blind, one person knelt down blindfolded while the other players took turns to strike him, and he had to guess who they were.

Dancing and music were popular with people of all ages and classes, and children and teenagers would certainly dance on the village green, and play music.

Football was a very rough game in Tudor times and tended to be discouraged by the authorities, but football games would break out from time to time, with large numbers of boys and men joining in, a football match often turned into a fight between the two opposing sides. Wrestling was also popular, and archery and tennis were other games that were played by adult men and probably by boys as well. bowling was popular with all classes, there were bowling alleys everywhere.

Board Games like chess, draughts, fox and geese and backgammon were played by adults and children, and dice and card games were also popular. people also enjoyed word games and riddles, which would have been played by children and by adults. A form of bowling called 'clash' or 'pins' was another popular indoor entertainment, in which skittles were knocked down with a ball, like modern bowling.

Most of the toys in upper and middle class households were imported from France or Holland. There were stiffly jointed wooden dolls with painted faces, toy ships and soldiers and drums, and children of both sexes rolled hoops and played ball. In poor homes, of course, the children had to make do with such unsophisticated playthings as could either be made at home or perhaps bought at a local fair or froma travelling packman.

Source(s):Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England by Alison Sim

Elizabethan England by Alison Plowden

Answer 5

If you were poor, then dancing and drinking were all you did for fun. People mostly did not have a social life like we do now. Most activity happened around ale houses. If you were rich, then the same, but you had facilities at home

Answer 6

If we are talking about the Tudor kings, that would be mostly hunting. Many of London's now famous parks started out as hunting grounds reserved for the Kings.

Answer 7

Mainly they read, played instruments, or enjoyed sports such as tennis and jousting, but this was mainly for upper class.

Answer 8

nothing but played ps3

Answer 9

They used to play with friends or go in the garden

Answer 10

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