Car games are games played to pass the time on long car journeys, often started by parents to amuse restless children. They generally require little or no equipment or playing space.

The association in association football was also shortened to soccer. This clips off the first and last three syllables of association, leaving soc-, onto which that chummy er was added, yielding soccer. The term is first recorded as socker in 1891. Footer is slightly older, found in that fateful year of 1863.