With more females playing games online, the typical stereotype of an average online gamer being an introverted, overweight teenage boy who spends most of their time indoors playing computer or console games, has been blown out of the water.

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Joe said that for the first day the pupils stayed indoors, playing cards and other games, but that later they went out and saw abandoned cars, fallen power lines and gates that had been blown away.

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Li Lin, who grew up in Beijing, China, didn't take up tennis until he was around 40, and his young son became his frequent playing companion, often indoors in the cold winters at the Miller Tennis Center in Williamsville, N.

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According to Netatmo, we spend about 80% of our time within walls indoors, whether sleeping, resting, playing with the kids or working at the office.

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The acrid-tasting haze has kept old and young Texans indoors, and left others (such as your tennis-playing correspondent) feeling as though they were exercising while smoking.

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Unlike soy or other meat-surrogates, in vitro meat could shift the economic playing field entirely from a land use issue to the non-effluent based urban indoors.

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The restaurant's garden room, while indoors, is tranquil and dimly lit - you can sometimes find a harpsichordist playing in the background.

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The cave, certainly, is an occasion for easy irony: the man who has perhaps done more than any other person to entice generations of children to spend their playtime indoors, in front of a video screen, happened to develop his peculiar talent while playing outdoors, at whatever amusements or mischief he could muster.

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Flashes coach Scott Stricklin attributed the slow start to playing one of the nation's most challenging early schedules, wintry weather that has kept the team indoors for all but seven practices and players who struggled while getting every opponent's best shot.

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