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Double Dutch is a game in which two long jump ropes turning in opposite directions are jumped by one or more players jumping simultaneously. There is a lack of consensus regarding the early history of double Dutch, but it is said to have been traced back from Egypt, China, and even Europe, where various forms of skipping rope was quite common.
A skipping rope or jump rope is a tool used in the sport of skipping/jump rope where one or more participants jump over a rope swung so that it passes under their feet and over their heads. There are multiple subsets of skipping/jump rope, including single freestyle, single speed, pairs, three-person speed (Double Dutch), and three-person ...
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Hopping games (1 C, 4 P) Hurdling (4 C, 12 P) L. Long jump (16 C, 11 P) P. ... Skipping rope; Split jack; Split jumps; Steeplechase (horse racing) T. Toe ...
Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game. German-speaking children call Chinese jump rope gummitwist and British children call it elastics. The game is typically ...
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A game or form of exercise using a skipping rope; Exon skipping, in molecular biology; Stone skipping, throwing a stone so that it bounces off the surface of water; String skipping, a guitar-playing technique; Snowmobile skipping, a sport where drivers hydroplane snowmobiles on lakes or rivers; British slang for dumpster diving
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