jump rope

noun

Also jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
the rope used.

First recorded in 1795–1805

Plus, there was jump-rope choreography, which is just always a treat.

I get the feeling Michelle Obama would smoke these clowns in a jump rope contest.

The first lady packs a rubber band and a jump rope in her suitcase on the road.

"You girls are crazy to jump rope so much," put in a big boy, Danny Rugg by name.

She was very much frightened and had told her parents that she would never jump rope again.

Doesn't it make you want to get out and jump rope and play marbles and leap-frog, and—and just jump and skip and yell?

Here was a child who had never played, London-Bridge-is-falling-down or jackstones or jump-rope or hop-scotch.

If very active she may jump rope, in solitary enthusiasm, or in combination of from two to four.

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