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

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 Swede took one end 48 of it, the attendant who had brought it took the other, and between them they began to swing it, very slowly, as a great skipping-rope.

From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

It is simply an amusing thing that I should have the cent; and the skipping-rope is still fresh in his memory, because of the pangs which he underwent before its purchase.

From My Little Boy by Ewald, Carl