hop·scotch
ˈhäp-ˌskäch 
: a child's game in which a player tosses an object (such as a stone) into areas of a figure outlined on the ground and hops through the figure and back to regain the object
hopscotched; hopscotching; hopscotches
: to move as if by hopping
hopscotched across Europe
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Verb
The tour hopscotched from city to city.
We hopscotched across the country.
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Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
Draw a hopscotch court with sidewalk chalk and play a game or two.
—Catherine Holecko, Parents, 30 July 2024
C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
His career was so long and so varied that there’s no efficient way to hopscotch through it.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Liz Moore’s excellent interrogation of class and generational injustice hopscotches among the 1950s, 1961, and the summer of 1975.
—Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
Draw a hopscotch court with sidewalk chalk and play a game or two.
—Catherine Holecko, Parents, 30 July 2024
Verb
Just 20 at the time, the kid had the looks, the blazing fastball, and the guts to hopscotch between the lines of cockiness and confidence.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
His career was so long and so varied that there’s no efficient way to hopscotch through it.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Hopscotch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hopscotch. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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