skipping-rope

British  

noun

1. a cord, usually having handles at each end, that is held in the hands and swung round and down so that the holder or others can jump over it

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Example Sentences

“Now for Taygete. She likes dancing. Don’t you think, Jane, a skipping-rope would be just the thing for her? You’ll tie them carefully, won’t you?” she said to the Assistant.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

But I insisted, and so the thumping twangy bass noise resumed, and over it, a light baritone chanting in Caribbean patois to the rhythms of a nursery rhyme, or a playground skipping-rope jingle.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Grasping Letty's hand she stepped over the skipping-rope, which the children had lowered in awe to the pavement.

From The Builders by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

I've held your skipping-rope for you when you were just a slip of a child!

From The Three Eyes by Leblanc, Maurice

The chief little man appropriated a skipping-rope, and appeared with it tied round his waist at the Hippodrome that evening.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh