hopscotch
(noun) a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hopscotch (uncountable)
A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.
• hoppers
hopscotch (third-person singular simple present hopscotches, present participle hopscotching, simple past and past participle hopscotched)
(intransitive, figuratively) To move by hopping.
(intransitive, figuratively) To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by hopping.
Source: Wiktionary
Hop"scotch`, n.
Definition: A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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