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Hopscotch   Listen
noun
Hopscotch  n.  A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; called also hoppers.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hopscotch" Quotes from Famous Books



... of formal balance over the centre is that it produces a straddle, as, in hopscotch one lands with both feet on either side of a dividing line. In all pictures of deep perspective the best mode of entrance is to triangulate in, with a series of zigzags, made easy through the habit ...
— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore

... China you will often see boys playing hopscotch or spinning peg-tops. They also play shuttlecock, but they have no battledore. They kick the shuttlecock with ...
— Highroads of Geography • Anonymous

... was considered a good player at hopscotch," joked Mrs. White, "so you need not worry about that, ...
— Dorothy Dale • Margaret Penrose



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