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(also jump-roping, jumping rope) The activity, game or exercise in which a person must jump, bounce or skip repeatedly while a length of rope is swung over and under, both ends held in the hands of the jumper, or alternately, held by two other participants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: skipping, skip rope
Antonyms: none provided
The length of rope, sometimes with handles, casing or other additions, used in that activity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Traditional children's games include jump rope, hopscotch, or patty cake.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: skipping rope
Antonyms: none provided
A single jump in this game or activity, counted as a measure of achievement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable, uncountable
Examples
- 2001, Matt Groening, “The Cyber House Rules”, Futurama, season 3, episode 11, transcript SALLY: One time, I did a hundred jump ropes.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rope-jump
Antonyms: none provided
To repeatedly jump over a rope, the ends of which are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is swung under the feet and over the head of the jumper; to play the game of jump rope; to exercise by jumping rope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: skip, skip rope
Antonyms: none provided
a child's game or a cardiopulmonary exercise in which the player jumps over a swinging rope
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cardiopulmonary exercise, child's game
Narrower terms: double Dutch
a length of rope (usually with handles on each end) that is swung around while someone jumps over it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: skip rope, skipping rope
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rope
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
نَط اَلْحَبْل
(naṭ al-ḥabl)
— game or activity
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Azerbaijani:
ipatdı
— game or activity
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Catalan:
saltar a corda
— game or activity
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Chinese Mandarin:
跳繩 /跳绳
(tiàoshéng)
— game or activity
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Danish:
sjippetov
— game or activity
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Dutch:
touwtjespringen
— game or activity
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Esperanto:
ŝnursaltado
— game or activity
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Finnish:
naruhyppely
— game or activity
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French:
saut à la corde
— game or activity
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French:
corde à sauter
— game or activity
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German:
Seilspringen
— game or activity
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Hungarian:
ugrókötelezés
— game or activity
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Icelandic:
sippuband
— game or activity
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Japanese:
縄跳び
(nawatobi)
— game or activity
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Korean:
줄넘기
(julleomgi)
— game or activity
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Maltese:
qbiż bil-ħabel
— game or activity
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Marathi:
दोरीउड्या
(dorīuḍyā)
— game or activity
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Mongolian:
дээсээр тоглох
(deeseer toglox)
— game or activity
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Norwegian:
hoppetau
— game or activity
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Polish:
skakanka
— game or activity
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Portuguese:
pula corda
— game or activity
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Portuguese:
saltar à corda
— game or activity
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Russian:
скака́лка
(skakálka)
— game or activity
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Spanish:
comba
— game or activity
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Swedish:
hopprep
— game or activity
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Tagalog:
lubid-luksuhan
— game or activity
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Turkish:
ip atlama
— game or activity
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Vietnamese:
nhảy dây
— game or activity
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Finnish:
naruhyppy
— (colloquial) single jump
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French:
saut à la corde
— (colloquial) single jump
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French:
saut
— (colloquial) single jump
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Catalan:
saltar a corda
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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Danish:
sjippe
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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Dutch:
touwtjespringen
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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Dutch:
[anglicism]skipping
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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Dutch:
skippen
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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Finnish:
hypätä narua
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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French:
sauter à la corde
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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German:
seilspringen
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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German:
seilhüpfen
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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Hindi:
रस्सी कूदना
(rassī kūdnā)
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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Hungarian:
ugrókötelezik
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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Limburgish:
käördje springe
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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Portuguese:
pular corda
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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Swedish:
hoppa hopprep
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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Turkish:
ip atlamak
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
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Vietnamese:
nhảy dây
— to jump over a rope repeatedly as a game or exercise
