tag

a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.

a label associated with something for the purpose of identification

a small piece of cloth or paper

a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser

(sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)

Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.

attach a tag or label to

touch a player while he is holding the ball

provide with a name or nickname

go after with the intent to catch

supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes

To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.

To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.