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Skipping rope   /skˈɪpɪŋ roʊp/   Listen
Skipping rope

noun
1.
A length of rope (usually with handles on each end) that is swung around while someone jumps over it.  Synonyms: jump rope, skip rope.






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"Skipping rope" Quotes from Famous Books



... direct questions and turn their heads away. So also, when I have been going in and out of the Square, they have stopped their play to gaze at me, but have merely smiled shyly, if at all, in answer to my greetings. Yesterday, however, they had a skipping rope. I jumped over it. Instantly there was a chorus of laughter and chatter. The ice was broken. This morning, after a moment or two's consideration behind her veil of unbrushed hair, Straighty came and clambered upon the arm of the courting chair—dabbed a clammy little hand down my neck, ...
— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds



Words linked to "Skipping rope" :   rope, skip rope



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