jump rope

noun

Also jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
the rope used.

verb (used without object)

to play this game or do this exercise.

Origin of jump rope

First recorded in 1795–1805

Also called skip rope.

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Historical Examples of skipping-rope

And Maud put her skipping-rope into the brown paper, and laid it on the bench.
Golden Moments
Anonymous
The Puncher seized a skipping-rope and did marvellous things with it.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914
Various
It was only because I had no right to come into the parlour with a skipping-rope.
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Anatole France
A lame puppy would not say “thank you” if you offered to lend it a skipping-rope.
Symbolic Logic
Lewis Carroll
He had a skipping-rope in his hand and was looking fixedly at the child.
Marguerite
Anatole France

British Dictionary definitions for skipping-rope

skipping-rope

noun

British 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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