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

“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

Father, you must lend me five cents for the skipping-rope.

From My Little Boy by Carl Ewald

A is for the Antelope, A beast that I have never met; They say he jumps the skipping-rope And makes a charming household pet.

From Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk by Daniel Edwin Wheeler

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

From The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow