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jump rope
[ juhmp rohp ]
noun
- Also jump roping. 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.
verb (used without object)
- to play this game or do this exercise.
Word History and Origins
Origin of jump rope1
Example Sentences
This can include treadmills, stationary bikes, ellipticals, jump ropes, and rowing machines.
The smart counter on this jump rope shows the number of circles you’ve jumped and calories burned on the LED display.
It’s nearly impossible to meet a jump rope standard without a jump rope.
In a bizarre display of agility, two of the new animatrons use their arms to swing a jump rope while another Spot robot bounces up and down in the middle.
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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