child's game vs cat and mouse

cat and mouse vs child's game

child's game and cat and mouse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
child's game	Yes	No	No	No
cat and mouse	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cat and mouse is a hyponym of child's game; that is, cat and mouse is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than child's game:

child's game: a game enjoyed by children
cat and mouse: 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

Other hyponyms of child's game include blindman's bluff, blindman's buff, cat and rat, cat's cradle, hide-and-seek, hide and go seek, hopscotch, jacks, jackstones, knucklebones, jackstraws, spillikins, jump rope, leapfrog, marbles, mumble-the-peg, mumblety-peg, going to Jerusalem, musical chairs, bopeep, peekaboo, pillow fight, post office, spin the bottle, spin the plate, spin the platter, tag, tiddlywinks.

child's game (noun)	cat and mouse (noun)
a game enjoyed by children	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

Difference between child's game and cat and mouse

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