Hopscotch Definition

hŏpskŏch
hopscotched, hopscotches
noun
A children's game in which a player tosses a small, flat object, as a stone, into one section after another of a figure drawn on the ground, hopping from section to section to pick up the object after each toss.
Webster's New World
verb
To move or travel on an indirect course, making many stops.
Webster's New World
To move in or as if in a series of irregular jumps.
American Heritage

(figuratively) To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by hopping.

Wiktionary

Origin of Hopscotch

  • hop scotch a score, line

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • hop +‎ scotch (“scratch”)

    From Wiktionary

Hopscotch Sentence Examples

  • Teach them how to play hopscotch or tic tac toe.

  • Blue skies, spring breezes, little girls playing hopscotch on the sidewalk.

  • After all, the whole business remained supposition—conclusions jumped to like fourth graders in a schoolyard hopscotch game.

  • Playground games included hopscotch, skipping and in the winter, sliding, which was frowned on.

  • As children we played hopscotch, football, basketball, Tic-Tac-Toe, checkers, Go Fish, etc. As we grow older our more developed brains crave sophisticated entertainment.

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