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Antonyms for hopscotch
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : hop-skoch |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɒpˌskɒtʃ |
Definition of hopscotch
Origin :- 1801 (from 1789 as hop-scot), from hop (v.) + scotch (n.2) "scratch," from the lines scored in the dirt to make the squares for the game.
- As in wander : verb move about aimlessly
- We p. 71played hopscotch, which is good training for the calves of the legs.
- Extract from : « Christopher Crayon's Recollections » by J. Ewing Ritchie
- With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.
- Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
- Of children's games, that known as "Hopscotch" was originally a religious rite practised at funerals.
- Extract from : « The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire » by S. W. Partington
- You'll feel weaker still if Hopscotch comes in and finds you with nothing unpacked!
- Extract from : « For the School Colours » by Angela Brazil
- Queke was probably a kind of hopscotch, and penny-prick a tossing game; both enjoyed an evil repute, according to Strutt.
- Extract from : « Chaucer and His England » by G. G. Coulton
- The girls (and sometimes the boys) play a very elaborate kind of hopscotch.
- Extract from : « The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) » by Robert Louis Stevenson
Synonyms for hopscotch
- aberrate
- amble
- circumambulate
- circumlocute
- circumnutate
- cruise
- deviate
- divagate
- diverge
- drift
- float
- follow one's nose
- gad
- gallivant
- globe-trot
- hike
- hopscotch
- jaunt
- maunder
- meander
- peregrinate
- ramble
- range
- roam
- roll
- rove
- saunter
- straggle
- stray
- stroll
- take to the road
- trail
- traipse
- tramp
- trek
- vagabond
- walk the tracks
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