Best place to play pickup games with the housebound

House of Representatives, that is. Someone's got to take advantage of all those dashing, upwardly mobile pre-government types littering the yards of Harvard -- before they turn around and take advantage of us. In between parliamentary debates and boning up on the merits of deficit spending, students of the John F. Kennedy School of Government take to the air. JFK Park, a triangle of grass wedged between the school and the Charles River, provides a welcome respite from the workaday week as the scene for ultimate-Frisbee and soccer skirmishes. Still, the networking instinct is rarely out of reach of the true policy wonk. Take a break in your run to slam a few pushups and cruise the premises. More aggressive lobbyists can try slapping a campaign sticker on a Frisbee and going in for a little grassroots politicking.

John F. Kennedy Park, John F. Kennedy Street at Memorial Drive, Cambridge.