He usually spent his days outside playing catch, hide and seek, or duck on a rock.

Duck on a Rock is a medieval children's game.

Duck on a Rock is a game that combined tag and marksmanship.

To score goals, he made players throw a soft lobbing shot that he had used in his old favorite game duck on a rock.

The rules of tumbang preso are somewhat similar to Duck on a Rock:

Some formations have names, like China Boy and Duck on a Rock, but to the Chiricahua Apaches it was just the Land of the Standing-Up Rocks.

To play duck on a rock most effectively, Naismith soon found that a soft lobbing shot was far more effective than a straight hard throw, a thought which later proved essential for the invention of basketball.

The agency said a park visitor complained at about 1:45 p.m. about a man panhandling at the Duck on a Rock pullout about 10 miles east of Grand Canyon Village on the South Rim.

Naismith's handwritten diaries, discovered by his granddaughter in early 2006, indicate that he was nervous about the new game he had invented, which incorporated rules from a children's game called "Duck on a Rock", as many had failed before it.

Struggling in school but gifted in farm labor, Naismith spent his days outside playing catch, hide-and-seek, or duck on a rock, a medieval game in which a person guards a large drake stone from opposing players, who try to knock it down by throwing smaller stones at it.

After failing to occupy the men with popular indoor sports of the day, he turned to "duck on the rock" for inspiration.