American singer and dancer JoJo Siwa performs with her dancers during the Chicago Pride Fest on June 22, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images)

A jaguar (Panthera onca) growls at the Mata Ciliar association, an organization for the conservation of biodiversity, in Jundiai, Sao Paulo state, Brazil on May 29, 2025. Twenty-five pumas and ten jaguars are currently recovering at the Brazilian Center for the Conservation of Neotropical Felines at Mata Ciliar, a site as large as 40 football fields where monkeys, wild dogs, maned wolves, ocelots, and other regional animals are also rehabilitated. (Photo by Nelson Almeida/AFP Photo)

“The White Lotus” co-stars Parker Posey (left) and Leslie Bibb reunite at the Gotham TV Awards near Wall Street in NYC on June 2, 2025. (Photo by Zach Hilty/BFA.com/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

U.S. Capitol Police remove protesters after they began shouting in a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing as Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought begins to testify on the rescissions package, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

Fashion models Iris Law and Paloma Elsesser prepare backstage at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2025 on October 15, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Sansho Scott/BFA.com/Shutterstock)

A Donald Trump impersonator with a bikini clad model stops at a hot dog vendor near Trump Tower on October 25, 2016 in New York, as part of a performance art piece by British artist Alison Jackson. The event is to promote Jackson's new show, “Private”, in New York, which features staged photographs portraying the private lives of public individuals. (Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP Photo)

In a simpler time all a child or an adult needed to enjoy the outdoors was a ball and a stick. Or maybe an old tire tied to a high branch to fashion a swing. And the only instruction given to children was to “be home before dark”. Now there are iPads and computers and television screens and shrinking safe public spaces. But despite the distractions and limitations of space, these images show the charm of kicking a ball or skipping rope endures. Sometimes with modifications as a nod to changing times. Here: in this Saturday, June 20, 2015 photo, a boy runs while playing with a motorcycle wheel in Samugari, Ayacucho, Peru. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)

Framed by the setting sun, an American Bison grazes at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, near Strong City, Kan. The buffalo herd at Tallgrass is one of the few herds of wild bison left in the United States. (Photo by Travis Heying/The Wichita Eagle via AP Photo)