hopscotch
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈhɑpˌskɑtʃ/
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- And all the while, Catherine was playing hopscotch on the sidewalk, soaked to the bone!
- hopscotch game
Examples
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Let's play hopscotch.
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At the school, I find my friend and Svetlana playing hopscotch.
Fiction book (1996) -
Is he playing Hopscotch by himself?
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There were some children playing hopscotch on the sidewalk.
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Our pockets are already full of flat rocks in preparation for the hopscotch game.
Fiction book (1996) -
Behind it was a church grade school, where towheaded children played hopscotch.
Academic text (2001) -
Instead of playing marbles or hopscotch, she preferred to climb trees with me.
Fiction book (2000) -
We're gonna play hopscotch!
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Children playing hopscotch on the sidewalk, away from home, their moms and dads.
Fiction book (1992) -
There were some children playing hopscotch on the sidewalk.
Synonyms
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1.0
A simple game that children play for fun
A children's game of throwing small stones into chalk squares on the sidewalk
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hopscotch comes from two simple parts: hop 'jump' and scotch, an old word for a 'mark' or 'scratch' on the ground. So the name pictures children 'jumping over marks', which is exactly the game.