child's game vs musical chairs

musical chairs vs child's game

child's game and musical chairs both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
child's game	Yes	No	No	No
musical chairs	Yes	No	No	No

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

child's game: a game enjoyed by children
musical chairs: 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, going to Jerusalem, bopeep, peekaboo, pillow fight, post office, spin the bottle, spin the plate, spin the platter, tag, tiddlywinks.

child's game (noun)	musical chairs (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
	a rearrangement that has no practical effect or significance

Difference between child's game and musical chairs

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