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Submitted by Shauna P
We can’t even remember what our gym teachers used to make us use these for but we all remember shenanigans we used to pull when our teacher had his back turned. The fun ultimately ended when someone lost a tooth though…
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I totally missed out on this. (sigh!) Guess my school was too uncool.
omg these things were the best!!! I was never quite sure wat we were meant to to with then though XD we just lay on our tummys and pushed!!! XD
We still have these at our school!!! (its total welfare though so, ya)
i remember these and i remember rolling over my fingers too….ouch!
Me too!!!! That was the only thing they were good for is rolling over your fingers. I was telling my boyfriend about them the other day I quess they didn’t have them in his school.
DUDE! I tottaly muffed up my fingers so badly one time, they looked like strips of bacon afterwards! I still had fun on those things!
aha i had these in my old school and they were some fun. ahh we would race and then ram into eachother when the teach wasnt looking. falling off= owww tho. still a load of fun and mischief.
I have ran over my fingers on several occasions and almost broke my nose off a wall on one of these death traps… boy do i wish i had one now…
My teacher made up this “spine breaking” game called Evolution with these.
It was like wheelbarrow, but you were on the scooter, instead of walking on your hands. And yes, you could break your spine doing it *shivers*
I can envision the physics of that happening… My god the pain.
i lovvve these yes my elementary school in va had them. LOL we used to scoot around the gym on rainy days…man i miss the, ours were blue tho
i remember the square scooters with handles, we would tie a jump rope to the handle, and one person would run as fast as they could holding the jump rope while the other went for a crazy ride on the scooter!
Even better…we were allowed to put the plushy mats up against the folded bleachers (the ones that lined the walls) so if you crash in to them, shock absorption! So not only we did that, we’d tow the scooters with the jumpropes, go all over the gym and play….WHIP CRACK!!!!
Best fun evar!
omg i tottaly did that as a kid would get pulled around with the cheap jump ropes and crash into the patted walls that had the mats and get pushed by friends and crashed got hurt from them but loved every min of it
Those were the days! Probably can’t do that nowadays, though – some idiot parent would sue the school…
im still in school and my school lets us use them. we’re still making all the good times you guys are reminiscing about!
I was in grade 5 when my school got rid of them. I still remember being pissed off about it…
I used to love spinning around and playing bumper scooter. Actually a parent was called about a stubborn child , who got a goose egg injury, because he was not following rules of lunch room supervisor. Ruins it for all as some are given too much credibility.
our school always tried to be super safe w/ these but almost every1 got hurt anyways. these were probably the best things in the elementary school.
we still do today but we tow them behind vehicles! good times, good times…
Now thats how we used to do things.
It was all fun untill there was a room full of children flying around tied to ropes crashing into each other.
Remembers doing this.
We always did something like that!
Ecxept at Christmas, and it was called Reindeers.
As far as I know, good ol’ NSU Elementary Lab School still has them!
Same with us =)
Loved these! We used to tow one another around with skipping ropes.
Haha! We had crappy wooden ones…had to watch out or the cracks would pinch you. Otherwise, totally fun.
I’ve had the joy of using both the wooden and the plastic ones.
And then in high school, my first year on dance team we did a novelty routine to a mix of auto-mechanic, car, and macho man songs, and when “born to be wild” started playing we had choreography that used the skooters. It was a blast.
Ugh. I’m gonna lable these as win, just because I loved and hated them so much. There’s no telling how many times I managed to roll my shirt or hem of my pants up in the wheels.
Wow I remember these I had such a love hate relationship with them.. for a most part they were a blast but man so many times you’d get mangled or when you stood up after getting off one of those your legs would go numb…we used to play a version of a shuffle like hockey at our elementry school on them.
I totally remember these things! We’d have races on them in elem school by pushing each other… I also remember the various injuries I got from them… smashed fingers and toes, hair and clothing caught in the wheels…
I remember in elementary school, around Christmas-time, my gym teacher made us do this ridiculous Santa/reindeer thing.. the “santa” would sit on this scooter, with a rope tied through the holes and go around the other person who was the “reindeer”. And we would have to race back and forth around these cones, it was just impossible and didn’t work at all.. haha.
OMG ME TOOO!
Was it kind of like a relay race?
yup absolutely no idea what they were supposed to be used for, but more often than not, we used them as square skateboards LOL
most awesome gym class thing ever! in high school we would play scooter basketball! you had to remain seated and shoot the ball, some one pushed you around. someone always got hurt, but it was still awesome!
UGh, Whenever We Used These, They Were Fun, But My Hair Kept Getting Tangled In the Wheels Unless I Tied It Back (And I Hate Wearing Ponytails)
Floor hockey and scooter races. Along with bruised hands.
scooter dodge ball.
I definitely remember that….
….not only did my elementary school [Albany Elementary (In Kempton)] have the plastic ones, but we also has really old wooden ones….those were so wobbly
this section brings up memories… especially with floor hockey
it was a miracle that I didn’t get my hands all mangled up in those games though… I still managed to ram my head into the brick wall though, which meant going to the doctor
apart from that, it was fun as fu**ing hell
it ranks second only to the infamous pirate game, which is actually illegal in Denmark, but nontheless it was still played at my school. Again a miracle that noone got badly hurt even though there were some hard falls
we used the wooden boards
the reason I got hurt during that particular floor hockey game was that, while I was rolling close to a wall, something from the floor got stuck in one of the wheels. This made the board turn around and smacking my head into the wall.
luckily there was no brain to my damage… the speed you could pick up on those things makes it hurt pretty bad… especially if you had two teammates to boost you and your board
Yes!
These were the best things ever! We always would lie on our bellies on them and push ourselves really fast with our feet.
And the ones with the handles we’d sit cross-legged and hold on really tight while someone pushed us.
I completely forgot about these! We had them in elementary school. I remember playing indoor soccer while sitting on those and using them as skateboards when the teacher wasn’t looking. Other than that, I don’t know what else we used them for.
Oh, these were awesome! We used them in so many different activities, like obstacle course day. In addition to clothing/hair getting caught up in the wheels, while riding these on your stomach you always inevitably got rug burns (well, gym floor burns) when your elbow or knee accidentally touched the polished wood while scooting at high speed.
I had TOTALLY forgotten about these!!! I love this blog!
I too had totally forgotten about these, and they were an epic win! The gym teacher would always tell us not to stand on them, but, of course, that would be the first thing everyone did as soon as the teacher went out of the room or into his office!
my class were using them as skateboards.and i fell off
I lost a fingernail one time in gym class playing with these. We were racing around the gym and as I was making a turn I started to lose my balance, put my hand down for a second, and then someone ran over my pinky finger and it ripped the nail off completely. Needless to say there was blood everywhere.
Ahhh, we played hockey on these…and soccer when it was raining outside. We were all too scared to use them for anything else, because our PE teacher looked like an ex-Marine or something. The guy never smiled. You did NOT act up in his class.
We also played hockey with scooters. Did you have the tiny “hockey sticks” too?
Yes! They were pretty much just the blade, made out of plastic, and we weren’t even allowed to lift them off the ground for slapshots.
While they were really really fun in grade school, we still use them in highschool- same size and everything- and now they send me into a homicidal rage everytime they come out.
I remember on free days everyone would want to play “Star Wars.” Dodgeball on scooters. Fun as hell.
I remember the fun i had on these when I was in Junior High. I used it like a skateboard as well, but didn’t stand on it. I’d run then kneel down and see how far I’d roll before the momentum ran out (or I hit a wall
). I never lost a tooth, and I don’t recall rolling over my fingers, but those were great fun. Thank you Shauna for submitting this truly epic win.
a freind of mine got her hair caught in one of the wheels. the nurse had to come and cut off about a foot of the girls hair. other than that, we all loved these things!!
The “Legit Use” for these at my school was moving things like wrestling mats when they were rolled up. You needed like 3 of these to handle them.
CONGRATS!!! You’re the first reply that actually knows what the actual use was for these. Yeah, we’d mangle ourselves with these in gym, but they had actual purpose other than racking yourself during some crazy floor hockey games.
In my school, all they used them for was to wheel around the big garbage cans from the lunchroom.
Aw, if it wasn’t some kid not paying attention and rolling over your fingers, it was you sitting on it and accidentally tipping your balance, rocking over the wheels and crash land the edge of the board onto the fingers you were holding on to it with!!
these arent that old, in fact theyre still used today(at least by my city’s schools). altho our gym teachers actually made games for us to play with them(and that was just in my jr high)
Our gym teachers set up this obstacle course, with streets, stop signs, bridges and tunnels, etc. and would bring out these scooters twice a year to roll around it. We had to obey the traffic laws or we got sent to the bleachers for 15 minutes. It was great fun!
My daughter’s school still does this, it’s called “Scooter City”. The kids wait all year for Scooter City! They added a “car wash” where the teacher would spray the kids with squirt guns. Good times!
The absolute BEST way for children across the nation to stub, break, otherwise maim their fingers!
I remember playing on these. We did races and different games with balls. Where I teach they are still used in gym class. They’re a bit upgraded though; they actually can interlock together. The students love to hook them together and have one massive board to move on.
OH MY GOD. totally forgot bout these!!!!
Yea some fun they were… racin around like you were king of the world… till you fell off and practically mangled your whole body.. still have scars on my knees from them darn things!!!!
These things are like BANNED forever where i live because of how dangorous they were. haha
there are still a few hiding in a back shed at my school though.
lol i remember at my school there were several kids in the hospitals, they finally put them away forever because they “scratched the floors”
The worst thing that happened to me is that I got may hair cought under the wheels…
at my school there was a girl that got her hair stuck so bad they had to call her mom for permission to cut her hair…she let them but gave the school holey hell…they got rid of them later that year (we used to sit on them and have races, whitch was more like playing a dangerous game of bumper cars…not much fun…
Loved those things – our gym teacher mixed those scooters with dodgeball – I don’t know what she was thinking.
game should have been called “There will be blood”
Heheh. Lol! And it takes a lot for me to Lol. Awesome! Just Awesome.
We had a game kinda like that, except the ball weighed two or three pounds, and we could either kick or dodge it (which was actually fairly difficult). The teachers threw the ball, the students dodged/kicked. I kicked it once and hit my teacher in the face. As far as I know, the game was never played again. lol
oh my god, our teacher made us do the exact same thing. ugh I can still remember the pain of all the scraped knees.
haha im a teenager andi have a lil sis who is still in elementary school and they still have these things!!! i remember back when i used these things that the first day would just be learning all of the rules and saftey regulations. then we would play the second day and somone would still get hurt anyways :/
Dude. Been there. It sucked so bad. I had to go up to the nurse, runny nose and crying so she could cut a chunk of my hair out. Ouch.
they got rid of at my school because they “scratched the floors” too lol good times
We still use them (I’m in middle school)
My school still uses them, too. But instead of just races we played mini hokey on them.
nah they still have them at my school… just with handles.
I still have a scar on my chin from riding one of these in preschool. Ouch.
So when we used these in elementary school I somehow managed to always wear a baggy shirt… this was a fail on my part because as I would push the scooter with my hands on it and my ass in the air everyone could see down my shirt lol! good times… I’d also end up rolling on my shirt and I would feel like I was gonna fly off the scooter, then because I was rolled on the shirt I’d jerk forward but not be hurt at all!
I loved these! Too bad they aren’t in schools still… we are too worried about our kids getting hurt like we did!
Hahaha, I loved these things!! We’d play Crack The Whip via sitting on the scooters and holding a jump rope and with a couple people running around trying to fling everyone else off.
I’ve never seen these before, but in my elementary school, the janitor (who shared space in the same closets as the sports equipment was kept in) had several ring-shaped wheeled things for transporting those big, plastic trash cans. So, naturally, we kids used them for the same purposes as everyone else here has mentioned, usually being pushed around by a friend at Ludicrous Speed while throwing dodge balls.
They’d never let kids today do that kind of stuff. Too dangerous. Pfft…
“OLD” ???? They are still in use at schools around my area. The game we’d used to play when I was still in elementary involved 4 teams lined up in a square, each team was a “wall,” a couple people from each team on the scooters, and a GIANT beach ball, and they tried to kick the ball over some other team’s “wall” of people, and to defend, we had to get up in a crab walk kind of pose and kick the ball away(don’t wear a skirt on those days lol) so it wouldn’t go over us. if it went over a wall, that team would get a point. the objective was to have as little points as possible (meaning you were the best defenders) sigh… good times.
I remember these. We played Scooter Hockey with them. Best gym game ever.
i remember a kid breaking his fingers cause they were run over!
That’s why kids today are bored with gym class. They don’t have cool stuff like this anymore *lol*. I remember these very well now. Crushed fingers galore! I think we used these for races and such, but man we never got very far without tipping over and crashing. Ah, the good o’le days…when you could nearly kill yourself with silly things in gym….
Okay, I’m 18 and I feel old after seeing this on nostalgic win. Can you believe that these were actually banned in some schools in my area?! Note to self: Don’t ever bring your kids to Wake County, NC, they’ll ban ANYTHING with the potential for having some good old fashioned fun.
I’ve never seen these before. Maybe its a regional thing?
My legs were always too long to use those, so I’d end up crawling no matter what. Still, good fun!
yeah, i lost four teeth to these things…
Yeah. I remember these. They were fun… until I ran over my finger. Ouch…
TOTALLY remember these from my grade school days. Bad part: my elementary school’s gym had WALL TO WALL CARPET. OW.
Aside from that, have you ever tied a BUNGEE CORD to one of those things? EPIC FUN WIN!!!
Wow… we used to use those at me elementary school and I loved them! They were my favorite part of gym class. Funny, I forgot all about them until I saw this post.
A LOT of the stuff on this site makes me feel really old… and I’m only 13!
I remember back when they used to pull you around with a skipping rope on those things. God damn, they were fun.
Ours were made of wood and Crab Soccer was our game. Funny to think of these for the first time since graduating 6th grade! I probably blocked it out because of the horrific one piece yellow gym suits we were forced to wear!
Hell, my elementary school managed to suck all the fun out of these things. They used them to put under a Rubbermade trashcan full of assorted balls so they could wheel them out to the court.
Why even bother having them at all?
we used to do all sorts of weird things with those. we used to play “battlefield”, which was like dodge ball except there were “doctors” who could run out onto the battlefield and grab the “wounded” and drag them to the healing station so the player could go out again. once we tried using those things to drag them around, but most of the time we just ended tipping them off of it and causing actual damage.
We played that at my school in Junior high too. We called it “Medic”.
We still have these
(still a girl got her finger caught underneth the wheel and crushed it)
I remember having to use those in gym when I was in first and second grade… I hated them!
I remember in 8th grade my friend pushed me as hard as he could while running as fast as he could on a very slick floor. I hit the cinderblock wall going about 20 mph. it was awesome.
Heh, I remember when we used to have Field Day with those things. One of the competitions was jousting on those with water noodles, which was actually a lot harder than it sounds. Good times, good times.
when ever Colbert brought out the scooters I actually enjoyed PE. I was the slowest runner the most uncoordinated always picked last. But on a scooter I was greased lightening(especially going backwards) I was top scorer in hockey and kicked ass in relay races.
I remember slamming into the wall of our brand new church building on one of these, leaving a kid-sized hole in it.
ahh, I miss these things. I want them to be in my high school. it was always fun to lay on your belly and ride it like that.
Its Physical Education Class….NOT Gym Class.
Dude, get a life. It really doesn’t make much of a difference.
Man, these were awesome!! We used to call them “scooterboards”. And yes, scootball (soccer on scooters) was epic.
It seems my friends and I weren’t the only ones who towed each other around at high speed with jump ropes…
I also remember one moment of glory during gym on one of those. We were going relay races and part of it involved a scooter race. All the other kids sat on it backwards and pushed with their legs, but I had the bright idea to lay on my stomach and salamander crawl. Needless to s ay our lead became considerable.
We played Mission: Impossible using these, gym mats, baseball bats, potato sacks…. Best gym game ever.
LOL wow…. I remember playing on this and ramming all the girls from the back on it..
i hit my back so hard it hurt for 2 weeks
I friggin love these! I wonder if they still sell them…
dude, we still have these at my school. sweet.
Love these until my testicles get crushed.
We would play Santa’s Sleigh with these things. There would be about 5 teams, each with a line of players. The first player was the reindeer, and the 2nd was Santa. Santa sat in the scooter, and the reindeer pulled the scooter with those cheap segmented jump ropes. The goal was to go across the gym, and collect one toy at the end, and then go back. There were about 7 toys on the other side. When they got back, everyone would move up a spot, Santa becoming a reindeer, and someone in line becoming Santa.
Elementary gym class was the best gym class of all!
God I remember those; I almost broke my arm falling off one. God those were the days.
I remember these and the kind that had handles and a place for your feet. I was in second grade at a new school when I encountered them. I wished our coach had let us play the games mentioned here.
I Thought That These Were Only In My School!!!
God
We’d Play “Skate Tag”
And I’d Always Be The First One Caught…..
Dude Elementary School Gym Class Sucked
we had these! i was in gym the last day of seventh grade (not a fun year) and a friend was pulling me. i sat indian style while she pulled me underneath volleyball nets. well we miss aimed and i ran into the volley ball pole. my whole right leg was bruised purple. the bruise was finally gone by the start of july. but i wouldnt have traded it. i loved those scooters
we always played hockey or basketball on these. SO in addition to injuring ourselves we also injured classmates.
OMG! THOSE THINGS BRING BACK GREAT MEMORIES!!! xDDD
I used to play with those things every friday in P.E. back in 4th and 5th grade in elementary school.
My classmates would play with me and scoot around and across the gym. It was the best time of my life. =)
oh, wow. i totally forgot about these.
it was all fun and games until someone demolished a finger, haha.
then there were the daredevils that stood on them, and almost broke their neck falling backwards off them.
good times.
I can totally remember how fun these things were. i also remember trying to go really fast on them then leaning to far to one side and tipping over.
*dies* This and the parachute were the best parts of gym class. I don’t remember ever running over my fingers, but I did run over my hair. I’ve always had long hair. ^_^’
hahah.. my school still has these :L
don’t use them though.
kids at my school had to fight to get these because we only had 3 or 4 of them for P.E. classes of 30+
I would always get my dresses caught in the wheels, turning myself into a projectile across the floor (getting skinned ankles and knees, while taking out a few other children). I would also trap my fingers and hair underneath it and hurt myself.
there really isn’t any safe way to play with these, but we all loved it anyway.
Oh man, I was a master on these scooters. There’s no telling what speeds I could achieve on these things… pushing backwards, of course. Going forwards, I was really slow xD
I remember those. There was a limited number of them, and I felt awesome when I got to use them. They’re kinda tiring, though.
Oh man. I almost lost BOTH of my top front teeth, thanks to one of these!
HA! The last year we used these in school, i was in the 6th grade. I broke a girl in my class’s finger (twice)
we never lost teeth, but we had LOTS of broken and dislocated fingers.
While these things were great in elementary school, they stopped being so much fun when we were stilkl forced to use them in high school gym class.
i remember those i scraped on pure asphalt and we used jump ropes so kids could pull us and i got my class pull 2 of us but then the rope broke
I can’t remember what grade I was in, but it was 2nd or lower. I use to love faking hurt ankles, wrists, fingers, whatever, to get the teacher to give me an ice pack, or an ace bandage….or both. One day she gave me the ice pack, and then made move around on those little scooter things all day. What was that about? And what’s funny is, I know we used them in gym class, but I have no earthly idea what we did on them…except for the one time I spend a whole day on one.
wow, i hated these. they wouldnt let us use them though when kids kept getting their fingers run over. but it was funny when it happened to someone
Now I know why when I get bored on film sets me and the rest of the crew that is my age instantly start dicking around on furniture dollys!
I remember spinning around on these when the teacher wasnt looking. We also put gym mats on 2 of those 1 person pushed the other rode on it. (he let us do that)
those were the shiz
OMIGOD.
These were the best part of gym class in elementary school.
They should reintroduce these, because gym blows chunks now.
…one more year to go…
i remember these we tied some jump ropes from the middle and one person ran holding the jump rope while the other sat and raced maybe hit the wall and other people once in awhile.. it was fun
O MY GOD!!!!! I totally broke a front tooth on one of these in the fourth grade. My classmate was rolling me around by my legs and we hit a jump rope. He landed on top of me and my tooth went sliding across the gym floor. Epic Epic WIN!!!!
OMFG! YES! THESE WERE THE BEST GYM TOYS EVER!! we used to KILL each other on these things
i can’t count how many times i ran over my fingers. we used 2 play scooter dodge ball. it was MURDER. we would always smash into each other, and if you had the crappy boards with no handles, you’d run over your own fingers. good times were had by all. i miss these. THX 2 WHOEVER POSTED THIS!!!
I remember holding onto them and running with my feet in gym class. xD
after i saw the parachute this was the first thing i thought about!!!!! i didnt think was gonna see it here!!!!!!!!
ha ha ha
This is really remind me of my childhood.
Playing in the gym one push and one riding.
Such a good fun. Gesss I missed it.
I LOVED those. I remember since we had a crappy school budget, there was only a certain number of them and you had to scramble to get one. I remember running over my fingers several times with them.
i remember rolling around on these things and using them as skatebaords until they took them away cause someone ran over their own fingers. It was a sad day
as i recall, these things looked fun until somebody stepped on one and went sprawling across the gym floor.
I remember these!!! We’d play crab soccer with them, though, with these huge bouncy balls. GOOD TIMES!
Actually, I just ordered some of these for the intramural program at my university.
i was the fasted roller in my class. yeah they were pretty dangerous… i remember picking them up and throwing them at my friends faces. I broke so many peoples noses. but my school still has them, still uses them, and i still go over and throw them at the little kids.
I’m sure you do. If I was the gym teacher i’d beat the hell out of you. Jerk
I remember these! ours were red and they were so banged up on the corners the plastic was shredding from running into walls. I remember crushing my fingers and bumping into other scooters, again crushing my fingers.
I found one a couple years ago somewhere in decent shape & now it sits in my garage. Crab soccer, 1st grade, awesome!
hated them, I was a tall kid with seemingly mile long legs…knees up to my ears to do the sit races derby thing our sadistic fat cow gym teacher wanted us to do. those and roller-racers, another toy that hated long legged people or people with long hair.
Holy crap my fingers instantly started hurting when I saw that thing. All I remember of those things are smashed fingers when we would sit on them indian style and push each other around or push ourselves around. Soo easy to get your fingers under the wheels.
Man i havent seen those things since the elm i got yelled at for riding it as a skate board
these things were the best!
i reamember every gym class we would run into the gym asking if we were doing scooters. there would be an uproar if the teacher said no.
Remember that one kid who would try to stand on one or even run and surf one. That kid ALWAYS biffed it lol! Man, it was always a mad dash to get the fast ones before they were taken by other kids. LOVE’d those things
not even kidding i chiped my tooth on one of them things
we still used those in my elemntary school last year ;p
So not EXACTLY from the past. … but they are fun
I always used to get my fingers caught in the wheels lol. It hurt like hell.
YES! I loved these things, we’d sit on them and play soccer, and similar games. They’re amazing, loved them so much!
ya i lost my penis on one of these
hahaha i had completely forgotten about these! just brought back so many horrible memories….
Wow, I WAS that kid who lost a tooth!
I found it funny even at the time, everyone else was freaking out, and I was just laughing. It was a baby tooth, no harm done.
Oh my god yes! Memories from elementary school.
they’d be great for moving furniture now!
Or splits his head open on the gym floor!
what i would give for one of those now…
i remember we would grab two of those things that were filled with air that u jumped on and we would have “sumo” competitions and the to people on the scooters would hold them in front of them and two other ppl would push them together. It was SOO much fun! a
We used to use those yellow scooter things for some random hockey type game. Basically we sat on them, had this short little foam “hockey sticks” and hit a ball around the gym. Gooood times.
I do tech support at a school, and I snagged a couple of these so I could roll around on the floor when setting up a lab full of computers. They are still awesome, even as an adult.
Lol, I remember losing most of my two upper front teeth to the wall on one of those in first grade. Actually got the little buggers stuck in my lower lip and I still love those things!
I could never figure out what the purpose of these things was for other than looking like a total dork in gym class.
Hahaha, my school I went to last year still uses those. They play a big part in feild day. The school I tranferred to, though, just makes you run. One thing we would do is have to make our way across the gym backwards through an obstacle course. Lots of running over fingers XD
Oh my Lord, these things were painful. Fingers ran over, knees scraped, arms cut from the sharp edges. Only these could make self-mutilation fun.
Best thing about elementary gym.
SO MUCH FUN.
Whoah! I remember those! We used to use them for Doctor Dodgeball. =D Whenever someone on the team got hit with a ball, the designated nurses with their scooters would haul the “injured” person over the backline on the scooter, and they’d be back in game. ’twas fun.
omg I loved these! Best part about gym other than the parachutes, I remember we almost got in trouble for using a couple left out by the last class to mod ‘texas snowball’ but the teachers tacked some rules onto the kids with them, made the game 3 times more fun
i’m in 6 grade and when i was in elementary school, we always used these. i always fell off of those.
what a fun time….I never broke teeth, but I always used to fall off of them. i actually ran into the gym wall about 4 times on one of these…
…I’m tempted to get myself one as a replacement for my skateboard! xD
I remember we still used these until the 8th grade.
I always fell off and hurt my back once.
EPIC WIN INDEED.
i never broke anything when i used it,
but i’m sure i feel off plenty of times…i miss those days.
Haha! They still have these at my old elementary and middle schools!
They are so totally dangerous, but my area can’t seem to get rid of them. I don’t know if I should feel safe anymore.
These were SUCH a win. I broke my wrist on one of these things. But they’re still a win.
O God those things were amazing. whatever happened to ‘em? probably some idiot parent suing the school cuz their child was stupid enough to get hurt on one. those things ruled though. many smashed fingers and toes, ripped up shirts too. amazing blast from the past
The sad thing is, my school still has these.
But, in all the time we’ve played on them, nobody has EVER gotten hurt, even playing tag! It was fun, but a little out of control…
The only thing that has happened in my 2 years of using them is one finger getting run over.
my school uses these still.
these were sooo much fun! our gym teacher used to have us do races with these. what we would do is get in teams of 2, have each person (one running, and one sitting on the scooter) hold on to an end of a jump rope, and then the runner would pull the person as they ran with all their might. great times…:-D
Wow. Jr High wasn’t that long ago… I remember these awesome things o.o
AWESOME!!! My school had blue and yellow ones, one team had blue, the other had yellow. We played hockey with little mini hockey sticks, and tag and tons of other crazy games! I only remember a few minor injuries. It was a blast!
Am I the only person who didn’t hurt myself or others while using these? I had access to ‘em every-so-often in Phys. Ed. class, but that’s the only time I ever saw ‘em. I remember the time I hooked three of them together so I could lay down while I used it.
we had to use these even in 7th grade :/ “Brad your up!” *Face plant* yup. thats right. almost broke my face and a concussion for 2 days
Actually, someone did loose a tooth in my class…
OMG these were like totally awesome:) our gym teacher made us play this game it was kinda a relay race we had 3 scooters,1gymnasics mat, 1 hula hoop,1 foam ball,and 1 of those colored stepping stone things. you had to put the mat on the three scooters then one person in your group at a time
would sit on the mat holding the other stuff while the rest pushed you to the other wall and back pushing in my school translated to slamming you into the wall as hard and fast as they could. it was still fun though
Oh man… Once we had a substitute in gym and we convinced her we were allowed to stand up on them. We grabbed hands and spun one another around as fast as possible, then let go… Sort of like shot put. It was the best day in gym class ever.
DUDE we used to totally jack each other while scooting around on these things!
I actually remember there was 1 event that we were required to scoot across the room with them…. just one.
They never got the play they deserved…
My school still uses these!
Lol we still use em too
MY school has a ton of them, but they banned dodgeball
omg ! this is just ehat im looking for!the skateboards are too too big im wheelchair bound and i go to ‘aqua springs’ which is a saunna/steam and jacuzzi place which i go to weekly i start off in my wheelchair and then i go down on my bottom and just shuffle around to each pool / steam room and the saunna rooms i have been looking for something like this for the last few years now and i really hope someone can find me one as my bottom is really bony! as im very slim.please help me! !
two words: SCOOTER HOCKEY
I remember those. At our school, some kid cracked her skull open when she ran into a wall. You have to wonder, why were they made like that?
Hahaa, they still use these at my school.. o_O Geez you guys make em sound freakyy
Scooters. No point to them.
“Here they are.” *Gym teacher removes them off rack, handing one per child*
*Shenanigans*
*Return rolling deathpads to teacher*
THIS is what I am talking about! Those damn things were dangerous as hell, yet everyone loved them. Fell off and pinched a finger? Cried a lil, got back up and got back in the game. No big deal. It went no further than that. No parents involved, no lawsuits..just good old fashioned fun. I feel privileged to have been in elementary school in the late 80s/early 90s..NOW everyone is running around behind their kids with cans of Lysol and knee pads, helmets and the like..god forbid little Johnny gets a scraped knee!
my school still ises these but they have handels added to them -.-
The new upgraded version of these things ROCK! The new ones are bigger and have better handles. They roll faster (if that’s even possible) and there are fewer broken fingers thanks to the bigger handles. The kids love to play scooter soccer.
We had the old wooden ones when I was in school. Ah the joys of squished fingers.
i loved these things! to learn about the heart, our gym teacher would set up an obstacle coarse that showed the capalaries and arterias and we would lay on our stomachs and push our selves through!
wow, I completely forgot about these things
they WERE awesome. I don’t recall if my school ever got rid of them or if they still use them (small school in the grasslands of South Dakota 
)….
people seem to forget just how resiliant kids actually are. we used to hit brick walls at high speed on these things, cry a little, get back up,
and that’s what kids do.
and do it again. why? because we were kids
they need to stop worrying about kids getting hurt so much. LET the kids have fun, let them run around, let them get their small injuries doing crazy stuff. it won’t kill them, and it’ll give them fun memories
then again, I can’t imagine having parents that were horribly worried about me getting hurt. Hell, my dad taught us field sledding
To get an image in your head, it involved an old car hood, a sturdy rope, a truck, and either a field (snow was optional) or a frozen lake (THAT was where it was really fun). it was essentially the same thing as these with jump ropes, but on an epic scale. My brother broke his nose doing it, but it was still fun as hell
In high school we still played that version in our free time, but with a sled instead of a car hood
I miss the elementary school days 
I remember these things! I chipped my front tooth playing on one of these when I was 8.
yeah i was the girl that flipped off hers and bashed her face into the gym floor so bad that it took an hour to stop the bleeding. haha. i remember rushing to the sink and staring, horrified, at the blood on my hand when i removed it from my face.
essential part of childhood.
We actually still use these in my school! I peer coached for the special needs PE class last year and this was our favorite activity. We had plenty of spills, but nothing too injurious
. I don’t know what they used to have, but now we have basketball hoops attached to poles that we can attach in the middle of the scooter — it’s awesome!
i forgot bout these but we all in elementary school were obsessed!!! we always wanted to use these in p.e. class!!
We played tackle football on these babies…..until our boys school went coed and all the fun was ruined!
Did you just say the fun was ruined when girls came you your highschool? there are more fun things than scooters, my friend. Especially when your school is coed.
we still have these in ur high school gym thats right gr 9-12 still use these to much fun but in grade 9 someone mangled their fingers so badly
my P.E. teacher still uses these lol
Ah I remember these! In elementary school we played a game where we had to push eachother from mat to mat. I fell down so many times. Those things were great though x)
I remember our gym teacher use to have us use them for something called crab soccer where you walked like a crab. Sometimes we got to pull out the scooters and try to kick the ball over the other teams line of players.
We used to loop a skipping rope through the hole and pull people around. Most dangerous equipment in the gym, I would have to say.
These give me the creeps. In elementary the gym staff tied a rope to a HUGE vothing machine, at the base. Think was to pull yourself down using rope to end, then use upper arm to get you back. Well long story short, the machine fell on my 6th grade friend, and killed him instantly in front of all of us. Hence they give me the creeps!
is this for real?
This is so awesome! I almost forgot about them. I hated getting one with a broken wheel. That just sucked! However thanks for the laugh, def. love it.
ahh this was like the only thing i liked in gym in elementary school!!! they should sell those to the public
HOLY TOLITOS! those were amazing fun. so many injuries, so many memories~
Hell, we played with these last week.
I remember these. We had a blast on em. Use to race each other w/ them in gym class.
I HAVE THOSE IN MY SCHOOL :3 MEOW
Our teacher would have us do races on the ones with handles, but for some crazy reason she wouldn’t let us sit cross-legged on them; everyone had to have their legs sticking out in front of them while going absolutely as fast as the other person could push you. I think it was supposed to prevent the worst of the injuries, but what really happened is you get rolled into a wall, fall off backwards into the pusher’s shins, and get kicked in the head all while going top speed.
awesome. simply awesome. I remember holding on to skipping ropes whilst people would pull us… the number of times i collided with people or solid objects… over 50 the few eeks we were aloud to use them… I find the closest thing to the feeling is going to a staples and racing down the Isles on the cheap desk chairs
oh… wow. these and the huge q-tips
In our elementary we played Ghostbusters with those scooters, we were in the dark and had to tag each other with a stick and when we did the other person was out.
even in my senior year of high school, these were a required part of the curriculum. although the games weren’t nearly as fun. quite odd to such extent i dreaded gym class in middle / jr high / high school, and yet how much i loved it in elementary school. i’d volunteer to become an elementary school gym teacher if i didn’t dislike those little germ sacks so much. maybe kids wouldn’t be so obese if high schools took a lesson from elementary school gym classes.
Dude, I’m in middle school, and we use these all the time, only, they have handles. We get to race down the hallways, and across the gym. We’ve never broken or lost anything though… But this one time, I was using them, and we were racing, and the other person came up behind me, and rammed into me. I don’t know how she did it, but I couldn’t stop and I smashed through a couple of people, and ended up in a closet with a bunch of stuff on top of me. Yeah, she got suspended.
I remember using these in gym in Elementary and Middle school. In Elementary we would have people pull us around on these things with a jump rope. It was a lot of fun. In 8th grade we would walk to the park a lot and one day we took these and went down the slides. It was probably a pretty bad idea, but nobody got hurt. I don’t remember anyone ever getting hurt on one of these things.
I remember playing with these in gym class and i got my hand run over. The next day I had to take the IOWA Test and had to write using my left hand because my right hand fingers were all swollen and bruised.
I remember these! I would always run over my fingers or some kids would shoot them unmanned across the ground to destroy someone else’s fingers… Also got my hair and clothing trapped in the wheels. I remember when we would lie down on our fronts and scoot along like turtles… Made your chest feel like you had a bruise after a while!
My district’s middle school still uses them. By God, sixth grade was horrible. We couldn’t get through a single gym class without someone howling in pain from their hair getting caught in the wheels/falling off as the scooter kept going/their hands being crushed under the wheels. Good times!
i played with these as a kid, rolling over a finger hurt like hell! but now that im an adult and a summercamp counselor i love watching the kids play with these, easily the favorite toy of the camp
We actualy still have these at my school! We use them to play scooter ball (basketball or soccer on scooters) all the time!
Oh my God i used to love these things!! I remember rolling across my elementary school gym and always crushing my fingers lol
OMG! I remember playin’ scooter hockey in middle school. Ours were plastic. Can’t say I ever rolled over any body parts, though.
And we still have the wooden ones at the middle school I work at… Used ‘em to move some stuff a couple summers ago.
we were playing a soccer game with them, with one of those giant dodge balls, and this larger kid Skoryk thrusted off his scooter to kick it, missed, and when he came back down, the scooter cracked in half. The CRACK put the room in silence, then a volume of laughter I’ve never heard before.
i work for an office furniture store, we have these things for delivering desks and other big pieces of furniture. so much fun to play with still.
when i was in 1st grade (five years ago), my younger bro and i had a game we’d play. one of us would grab a jump rope, and the other guy would sit down on the scooter and scream like hell as the other guy pulled him.
When I was in elementary school, we got to play Quidditch on these things during P.E.!!
We also had these triangular ones that you didn’t have to push; just move the handle bars and they went forward.
Good times …
DUDE WE TOTALY JUST USED THESE LIKE LAST WEEK DDD:
I remember these things though we never really played with them. The most i saw them used for was by the janitors. They’d put their trashcans on them and wheel them around.
well im 13 and we actually still use these in my middleschool!
Lol, I stole one of them from the Gym in school, laid on my stomach on one of those, raised my feet, my buddies grabbed my feet and started pushing frantically. One thing about our school, we had stair cases and landings in between the 1st and 2nd floor where a nice flimsy glass display case could be set. My asshole buddies flung me down the stairs, and i shot the thing out from underneath me fast like before launch. In the process of breaking an arm and my jaw hitting the stairs on the way down, i shattered the display case and came within inches of a fallen piece of plate glass coming down vertically which would have done some extremely serious damage. My dad got arrested for beating the hell out of the prinicpal and gym teacher for even having these things around. See you in 3 more years dad, and thanks!
oh my god! the only toy in the world where it was so much fun getting hurt! these things were a blast!
I’m surprised I never got injured, mangled, had clothes/hair caught in one of these things as a kid…
I loved playing with these things in gym class, although they forced us to sit on our butts instead of our stomachs, (which was more fun IMO). I remember playing with these things up until high school.
omg… dude. I so remember these!! they were awesome!!
Our shenanigans ended with a broken arm…. actually two. (We were slow learners.)
Holy crap! those thing were the best we always had races and played dodgeball on those things at my school
does anyone remember the ones that had like handlebars that you turned side to side to get it to move?
Flat ones? That had to suck. Ours had a little impression for your butt and handles on them. They were also almost triangle shaped. The thing listed here is used for moving furniture, not for kids to play with.
I had completely forgotten about these! We used to use them to play a soccer-type game. Ah, thanks for bringing back the memories of my favorite gym classes…
We found a couple of them in one of the auditoriums at my university. They’re still awesome.
IIII REEMEMBER THESSSEEEE
we used them in mission impossible, where you had to get to the other side of the gym without touching the ground.
the scooter kids would grab like… SOMething and pull themselves along the floor ahead of everyone to claim the matts for our team.
OH GOOD TIMES, GOOD TIMES.
We played Mission Impossible… 2 teams split on opposites ends of the gym. Each team recieved 1 scooter, 3-4 rubber dots, etc… You had to get all your team across to the other end without touching the ground or the group would start all over. You could also scoot over and steal your enemies pieces… BEST game!
I played that game too…..it was awesome! hah!
my schools always had these tucked away in the equipment room but we never EVER got to use them, wonder why
6th grade i ended up in a 12-kid pile up, 3 of us needed stitches (including me) and another kid broke his leg. A couple months later we played hockey and a girl broke 2 fingers. then they banned them forever.
I actually did knock a kids tooth out using these. The gym teacher thought it would be a good idea to have us play basketball on them. He thought it would be a good idea to go for a jump shot. Good times.
HAH! At my school, everyone used to hate being the yellow ones…we’d all fight over the blue scooters.
Ingredients for the most fun you’ll ever have: One square scooter, one skipping rope, and one chump to pull you around the gym.