Did you play more with boys or girls growing up?

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I mostly played with boys. (I'm female)

Didn't matter. But boyish activities were funner usually.

I played with both, but usually the boys, because the activities were more fun. They didn't seem to mind much, and even today, the majority of the friends I have are guys.

None. Just on my own.

I either played on my own or with boys, usually. I rarely played with girls.

I played mostly with girls when I was a kid. Although I nearly always preferred playing by myself but I had a best-friend-next-door-neighbor who would pester and beg me constantly to come outside and play and I often wanted to tell her no I want to stay inside and read or draw but then she'd think I was terrible and I'd have to do what she wanted. And when we did play it seemed that she had to always be in control and do everything her way no matter what. We often both went to the frog pond near our houses along with other kids, both boys and girls. But we'd also play house with our dolls (she called it "cubby"). It was when I was a teenager other girls my age stopped being interested in such things, but I didn't. That is probably why the metaphorical nostalgia goggles are thicker than they should be when I view my early childhood through them but by adolescence the filter on them is clogged and the lenses fogged from all the toxic grime and noxious vapors.

I've got to stop reading TV Tropes.

When I was very little, my (gay) brother and I were like twins.

Grade school:
at home: siblings and neighbours (mostly girls), playing German Ball in the street;
at the cottage all summer: neighbours (mostly girls) playing hide and seek and Play Family Village;
at school: girls (skipping, hopscotch). I liked doing boy things (preferred Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew) but boys didn't like my girl germs.

High school: the other nerds in the school band. It helped that there were lots of nerds in my neighbourhood.

I'm female.

My closest friends were girls, but I did play a lot with boys, especially in school

I played mostly with boys when I was younger; I felt more comfortable with them. Nowadays I think it's harder to be friends with men because we're so much more aware of gender expectations as we get older.

played with both equally. I will never forget how upset I was when all of us in the neighbourhood had 'the chat' where we basically decided we were getting too old to play together all the time and that we had to start dividing ourselves into boys and girls but it would still be ok to sometimes play all together but not like we used to because now we are too old for that.

I played by myself, or with the boy who lived next door. I rarely played with girls. I will never forget the day that, in a fit of frustration, my Mother called me inside from my tree fort, put me into the bathtub to wash off the grime, and dressed me in white shorts and a pink izod shirt. She drove me up the street to the house of two girls, Ellen and Kathleen. Told me I was going to play with them for a while. It was like walking into an alien world, these girls bedrooms and the stuff they played. I was bored out of my mind and couldn't wait to leave. I've never forgotten that day! To this day, I still get along better with men. Not that I don't want female friends, but I just haven't met any women that I "get". Most of them are these strange creatures who never shut up and seem to be interested in really frivolous things. I try to talk to them, but it's surreal.