hopscotch

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈhɑpˌskɑtʃ/
• IPA: /ˈhɒpˌskɒtʃ/

Noun

hopscotch (uncountable)

1. 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.
   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:

     No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.

Synonyms

• hoppers

Translations

• French: marelle
• German: Hickelkasten, Hüpfspiel, Paradiesspiel, Himmel und Hölle, Tempelhüpfen
• Portuguese: amarelinha
• Russian: кла́ссики
• Spanish: rayuela, bebeleche (Mexico)

Verb

hopscotch (hopscotches, present participle hopscotching; past and past participle hopscotched)

1. (intransitive, figuratively) To move by hopping.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by hopping.

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