jump rope
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1.3
- noun
- /dʒʌmp roʊp/
- US
:
saltar la cuerda
- " With that, she got up, went over to a spot in the gym in front of the mirrors, and started jumping rope.
- girls jump rope
- start jumping rope
- play jump rope
Boxing is one of like the hardest sports as far as like physically it's the taxing and jump rope is one of those things where I can get your heart rate up.
- Boxing is one of like the hardest sports as far as like physically it's the taxing and jump rope is one of those things where I can get your heart rate up.
- I would work those little high intensity cardio intervals in whether it's jumping jacks, heinies, but jump rope.
Examples
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Three girls who had been jumping rope down by the main wharf ran to put on their quilted jackets.
Fiction book (1996) -
They jumped rope and did somersaults.
Fiction book (1997) -
And you would sit there and jump rope for like an hour straight.
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Sometimes the neighbor girls would jump rope.
Fiction book (1997) -
Just jumping rope was incredibly hard.
Blog text (17) -
These are just for kids who want to jump rope but don't have any friends, right?
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Sometimes, I jumped rope or did leg lifts; other days I ran down to the elementary school and back, my breath hurting my throat on hot days.
Fiction book (1997) -
Stamina, speed, coordination, concentration—all these attributes are present in the simple act of jumping rope.
Fiction book (2002) -
The children gathered in the playground to jump rope together on a sunny afternoon.
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During gym class, we practiced how to jump rope in sync with each other.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun 'jump rope' is directly compositionally built from 'jump' (to leap) and 'rope' (a cord), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the activity/game of jumping over a swung rope. This is a common and cross-linguistically transparent construction (e.g., Spanish 'saltar la cuerda', Chinese '跳绳'), so the meaning is immediately recoverable from the parts.
Etymology
Jump rope as a game comes from the simple picture of people swinging a rope and jumping over it as it passes under their feet, so it now means the children's game or exercise of 'skipping'.