Odd questions for Brits (Others can weigh in, too)

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So, I'm writing a fic, and I need to know:

There's a game we play in the US called chicken fight. (According to that Wikipedia article, it is also called Cherry Drop, Shoulder Wars, or Darling Pickie.) It's played at the beach or in a pool. It consists of two teams of two people each: one team member sits on the shoulders of the other team member, and tries to knock their opponent off the shoulders of their teammate.

It's generally played with a girl on the shoulders and a guy down below, and often signals the beginning of Sexy Pooltime Shenanigans. (Or at least that's how it's been used in my experience. I've also played with all girls, but that also tends to lead to shenanigans.)

Here's a video, if you still don't know what I'm on about:
(WARNING: Video is accompanied by Obnoxious Adolescent Commentary!)

So the question: do you have this in the UK? (Or anywhere else?) What is it called? (Oh, and before you accuse me of being lazy: I plan on doing a Google search and trolling through the usual American-to-Britspeak blogs when I get back from work, but it's a bit obscure, and I thought maybe someone could help me out in the meantime!)

Americans: what are your experiences of the game? What do you call it?

Comments

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

The Hawaiian take: yeah, I would call this chicken fight. I can definitely see how this would lead to sexy shenanigans, but it my experience it was more of the macho competition as described above. But that's because I mostly only played with my family and/or friends (usually, girl friends) rather than, say, with a bunch of sexy college co-eds. (My brother and I make a badass team, btw.) I have played it in pools, more frequently in the ocean (where the life guard won't yell at you about it), and, once, in my history classroom during recess, where thankfully no one died or was injured. XD;

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Yes! Score one for someone else who knows the name of this game! (-10 again for me being the only one who remembers it as a prelude to sexy shenanigans...)