beckon

To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.ambitransitive

• It beckons you to go away with it.
• His distant friends, he beckons near.

To seem attractive and inviting.ambitransitive

• The election come and gone, work beyond political organizing beckoned.
• How the gentle wind / Beckons through the leaves / As autumn colors fall

A sign made without words; a beck.

• At the first beckon.
• He turn to me, make a beckon with the key in his hand.

A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.