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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skipping-rope

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

“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

A Beethoven, when it comes to pictures, may find something very taking in a daub representing a plump child with a skipping-rope, and the legend: 'See me jump!'

From Horace Chase by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Careful enquiries establish the fact that a skipping-rope of the sort used by the upper classes is nowhere to be obtained for less than five cents.

From My Little Boy by Carl Ewald

On this inducement Barbara slowly parted with her skipping-rope, and let Alex knot it hastily and insecurely to the newel post on the first landing above the hall.

From Consequences by E. M. Delafield