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skip rope

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skip rope (third-person singular simple present skips rope, present participle skipping rope, simple past and past participle skipped rope)

  1. (idiomatic) To jump over a rope, both of whose ends are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is moved under the jumper's feet in a continual rhythm; to play the game of jump rope or exercise by jumping rope.

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skip rope (plural skip ropes)

  1. The rope used in this activity.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 11:
      Where do children's rhymes come from? What ancient motif is simply reclothed in a modern story or a children's skip-rope song?

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