This article explores the concept of mobbning, which is mainly used in school settings, and involves repeated bullying of one child by another, from a Swedish perspective. Mobbning has been given much attention in the media during the 1990s and is mentioned in the school regulations of 1994. A special interest has been in what might be termed ‘anti-democratic’ acts and processes in schools. It is argued in the paper that the phenomena of mobbning is more talked about than occuring in reality. The paper explores what we mean when we label something mobbning. This study is based on teacher´s descriptions of situations in schools when mobbning has occurred.