skip rope

present singular third person skips rope · participle present skipping rope · participle past skipped rope · past skipped rope

1. idiomaticTo 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.

   Synonyms: jump rope

plural skip ropes

1. The rope used in this activity.

   Where do children's rhymes come from? What ancient motif is simply reclothed in a modern story or a children's skip-rope song?

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 11

   Synonyms: jump rope, skipping rope