child's game vs going to Jerusalem

going to Jerusalem vs child's game

child's game and going to Jerusalem both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
child's game	Yes	No	No	No
going to Jerusalem	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, going to Jerusalem is a hyponym of child's game; that is, going to Jerusalem is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than child's game:

child's game: a game enjoyed by children
going to Jerusalem: a child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated

Other hyponyms of child's game include blindman's bluff, blindman's buff, cat and mouse, 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, musical chairs, bopeep, peekaboo, pillow fight, post office, spin the bottle, spin the plate, spin the platter, tag, tiddlywinks.

child's game (noun)	going to Jerusalem (noun)
a game enjoyed by children	a child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated

Difference between child's game and going to Jerusalem

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