Balonmano

• Balonmano, or handball in English, is a popular game in Latin America, particularly for children. The game can usually be played with any available ball that has a certain amount of bounciness to it. Smaller balls tend to work better for this game, which has various versions that can be played. In one version, a player throws the ball against a wall while a second player hits the wall before it bounces twice on the ground.
  
  

Jugar a Las Canicas

• Jugar a las canicas is a Latin American interpretation of marbles, a game popular among North American children for decades. Like balonmano, there are various methods of playing jugar a las canicas. In one such version called ahogado, players place markers in the ground and then shoot their marbles from behind their marks. Each player has one marble to shoot while the rest are placed inside of a ring. The point of the game is to knock out as many of the marbles as possible.
  
  

Trompos

• Trompos is a very old Latin American game that is popular among children, particularly boys. It has been played in Latin American countries since approximately 2,800 B.C. In it, players have tops that they spin inside of a circle. The object of this particular game is to knock the other player's spinning top out of the circle. The player whose spinning top is left inside the circle is declared the winner of that match.
  
  

Fútbol

• Fútbol, known in North American as soccer, is the most popular sporting game in Latin America and has been ingrained in the local culture. In the game, players on one team play on a grass field as they attempt to get a leather ball into the other team's netted goal. This is done without the use of hands, with the exception of the goalie who blocks the incoming ball from landing in their goal. In some of the more economically depressed Latin American countries, any ball is used and the game is played in the dirt.