Locomotor Play is one of the sixteen ‘play types’ defined by British Playworker Bob Hughes in his 2002 Taxonomy of Play Types.
‘Movement’ is a key component of Locomotor Play but so is control over that movement. When the twin elements of movement and control are present, Hughes refers to this as ‘authentic locomotor play’. This creates a distinction between, say, a child riding a skateboard under their own power and being on a skateboard while pushed along by someone else.
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See also Bob Hughes, The Play Types, Wheeled Play
