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Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, [1] [2] into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. [3] It is a children's game that can be played with several players or alone. [4]
The action of jumping is central to several sports and activities. Some sports are based almost exclusively on the ability to jump, such as high jump in track and field, whereas in other sports the act of jumping is one of multiple athletic abilities used in the sport, such as basketball .
Boy jumping a long rope in Virginia A child playing with a skipping rope in Japan. A skipping rope or jump rope is a tool used in a sport where participants jump over a rope which is swung so that it passes under their feet and over their heads. Variations of the sport allow for freestyle jumping, or following set sequences, with one or more ...
The first blobbers were the sailors who would jump from the ship, onto the "blob," although the first recorded use of the blob was in Camp Longhorn, a summer camp near Austin, Texas in which the founders' sons used the blob in the camp's canoe bay. Tex Robertson and Bill Johnson, and Pat Robertson, founders of Camp Longhorn, and revised the ...
In a jump from stationary (i.e., a standing jump), all of the work required to accelerate the body through launch is done in a single movement. In a moving jump or running jump, the jumper introduces additional vertical velocity at launch while conserving as much horizontal momentum as possible. Unlike stationary jumps, in which the jumper's ...
Schoolchildren in the US performing jumping jacks. A jumping jack, also known as a star jump and called a side-straddle hop in the US military, is a physical jumping exercise performed by jumping to a position with the legs spread wide and the hands going overhead, sometimes in a clap, and then returning to a position with the feet together and the arms at the sides.
To get a game started faster, some house rules allow a player with no pieces on the board to bring their first piece into play on any roll, on a 1 or a 6, or allow multiple tries to roll a 6 (with three rolls being the most popular). If a piece lands on the same space as another piece of the same colour, the moved piece must take the preceding ...
No Jumping on the Bed! is a children's book written and illustrated by Tedd Arnold. Published in 1987, it marked the first of the many children's books that Arnold was to both write and illustrate. Published in 1987, it marked the first of the many children's books that Arnold was to both write and illustrate.