cat and mouse

1. 1.

   a game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands; they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first

   Synonymscat and rat

   Broaderchild's game

Questions about cat and mouse

What does cat and mouse mean?

cat and mouse means "a game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands; they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first".

What is another word for cat and mouse?

Close synonyms include cat and rat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cat and mouse a common word?

cat and mouse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.