What is "capture the flag"

n. 1 (context games English) a game normally played by children in which two teams have a flag which is stored at the other team's base. Whichever team returns their flag to their own base first is the winner. This game is often played in paintball. 2 (context video games English) A computer game with similar rules, usually in first-person shooter format.

Capture the flag, commonly abbreviated as CTF, is a traditional outdoor game where two teams each have a flag (or other marker) and the objective is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base," and bring it safely back to their own base. Enemy players can be "tagged" by players in their home territory; these players are then, depending on the agreed rules, out of the game, members of the opposite team, sent back to their own territory, frozen in place until freed by a member of their own team, or "in jail."

Capture the flag is a traditional outdoor game often played by children where two teams each have a flag and the objective is to capture the other team's flag. It is also a very common game type found in many video games that feature multiplayer mode.

Capture the flag may also refer to:

• "Capture the Flag", a song by the German thrash metal band Sodom from their 1990 album Better Off Dead
• "Capture the Flag", a song by Broken Social Scene from their 2002 album You Forgot It in People
• Capture the Flag (film), a 2015 Spanish 3D computer-animated adventure comedy family film directed by Enrique Gato
• Capture the Flag (video game)

Capture The Flag is a 3D first-person perspective, two player, video game, released for the Atari 8-bit in 1983. It was programmed by Paul Allen Edelstein and was the follow-up to his 1982 game, Wayout, which featured similar maze-based game-play for one player. Along with its predecessor, Capture The Flag was among the first 3D maze games to offer the player full 360 degree movement, and one of the earliest examples of a ' multiplayer' game from a first-person perspective within a 3D rendered environment.

Capture the Flag ( Spanish: Atrapa la bandera) is a 2015 Spanish computer-animated science fiction adventure comedy film directed by Enrique Gato and written by Patxi Amezcua. Produced by 4 Cats Pictures and animated by Lightbox Entertainment, the film is distributed by Paramount Pictures International. It was released in 3D.