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hopscotch

/hop-skoch/US // ˈhɒpˌskɒtʃ //UK // (ˈhɒpˌskɒtʃ) //

跳房子,跳蚤市场,跳绳,跳跃

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a children's game in which a player tosses or kicks a small flat stone, beanbag, or other object into one of several numbered sections of a diagram marked on the pavement or ground and then hops on one foot over the lines from section to section and picks up the stone or object, usually while standing on one foot in an adjacent section.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : to jump or leap from one place to another: Small birds hopscotched on the lawn.
    • : to journey quickly and directly from one usually far place to another: ambassadors hopscotching from Moscow to Paris to London.
    • : to move or pass through something, as a geographical area or a field of endeavor, making many brief stops: The candidate hopscotched through four states in two days.
    • : to shift from one thing to another quickly or abruptly: The story hopscotches from the present to the past in a confusing way.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : to jump or leap over.
    • : to cross over in one continuous action: She hopscotches the country in her private plane.
    • : to cross or travel through erratically or abruptly: The escaped convicts hopscotched the valley.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
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Examples

  • The street is closed to traffic and kids run unfettered across inviting hopscotch squares and bicycle lanes.

  • Our own Rx includes fat, colored chalk for drawing hopscotch boxes, plus Whiffle Ball and water balloons.

  • You'll feel weaker still if Hopscotch comes in and finds you with nothing unpacked!

  • Queke was probably a kind of hopscotch, and penny-prick a tossing game; both enjoyed an evil repute, according to Strutt.

  • The girls (and sometimes the boys) play a very elaborate kind of hopscotch.

  • We p. 71played hopscotch, which is good training for the calves of the legs.

  • Of children's games, that known as "Hopscotch" was originally a religious rite practised at funerals.