follow-my-leadernoun [ U ]
uk/ˌfɒl.əʊ.məˈliː.dər/us/ˌfɑː.loʊ.məˈliː.dɚ/UK US follow-the-leadera children's game in which one child is followed by a line of other children, who have to copy everything the first child does
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Children's games
- blind man's buff
- conker
- double Dutch
- hangman
- hoopla
- hopscotch
- life
- marble
- midget
- musical chairs
- peekaboo
- piggy in the middle
- piggyback
- play
- pretend
- show-and-tell
- spitball
- tag
- trick-or-treating
- warm
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Examples from literature
- And then he looked on while they played games—hide-and-seek, and duck-on-the-rock, and follow-my-leader, and ever so many others.