[
UK
/hˈɒpskɒtʃ/
]
[ US /ˈhɑpˌskɑtʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈhɑpˌskɑtʃ/ ]
NOUN
- a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone
How To Use hopscotch In A Sentence
- There have been dancing games before, of course, but they were rudimentary hopscotch affairs where you had to step on the right footpad at the right time. Why talk to a computer? Surely talking to a human is traumatic enough?
- There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language. Languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH.
- The children squared off the sidewalk to play hopscotch.
- At recess one day her teacher taught the class how to play hopscotch on the cement basketball court outside.
- Playing hopscotch, hide and seek, even a game of rounders was all in a day's fun for a thirteen year old in the good old days.
- The purpose of this event - which involved another 50 children - was to see if they would still play traditional street games like hopscotch in the absence of cars and traffic.
- The playground is now a more pleasant and interesting place for the children with grid games, such as hopscotch, jigsaws, target games and three chessboards with draught pieces.
- Little girls played tag and stoop-ball, hopscotch, skipped rope; big girls sat under the pine tree and whispered.
- Or, out in the playground, compete in a game of conkers, marbles and - if you are up for it - hopscotch and skipping.
- Outdoor games like marbles, jacks, hopscotch not only occupy your kids, they will also strengthen coordination skills.