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

Example sentences :

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

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