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

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

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

She shook her head sadly, as a brown river, girt with olives, flashed under the train like a child's skipping-rope.

From The Crime Doctor by Hornung, Ernest William

A little congregation had formed 100 itself in the lane underneath my window, and was busy over a skipping-rope.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis