hopscotch

«hopscotch» in Mova's school dictionary: a children's game in which you throw a small stone or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (hopscotch — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

Hopscotch is a children's game in which you throw a small stone or marker into numbered squares drawn on the ground, then hop and jump through the squares to pick it up. tree →

sense in the lessons

In playgrounds in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, hopscotch courts are painted or drawn with chalk. It helps balance and counting: children say the numbers as they hop. In maths lessons, a hopscotch grid can be used to practise number order and skip counting.

examples

• We drew a hopscotch grid on the pavement with chalk. tree →
• In hopscotch you hop on one foot in the single squares. tree →
• I threw my stone onto square five. tree →
• She lost her balance and stepped on a line, so it was my turn. tree →
• Our playground has a hopscotch painted on it. tree →
• We played hopscotch counting in twos. tree →
• Some played at marbles, at hopscotch, at ball. tree →

note

Uncountable as the game («play hopscotch»), but «a hopscotch» can mean the drawn grid. Comes from «hop» + «scotch» (an old word for a scratched line), not from Scotland.

In the corpora

• Other playground games: cache-cache (hide and seek) and la marelle (hopscotch).
• Hopscotch is klAsyky, chalked on the pavement, a skipping rope is a skAkalka, and m'yach is any ball.
• klAsyky means hopscotch, drawn on the pavement with chalk.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hopscotch» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.