hopscotch

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

hop +‎ scotch (“scratch”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈhapˌskatʃ/
• IPA: /ˈhɒpˌskɒtʃ/

Noun

hopscotch (uncountable)

1. A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.

Synonyms

• hoppers

Translations

child's game

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跳房子 (cmn) (tiàofángzi), 跳格子 (cmn) (tiàogézi)

• Dutch: hinkelen (nl) n
• Esperanto: paradizludo (eo)
• Finnish: ruutuhyppely (fi)
• French: marelle (fr) f
• Georgian: კლასობანა (ka) (klasobana) 
• German: Hickelkasten (de) m, Hüpfspiel (de) n, Paradiesspiel (de) n, Himmel und Hölle (de), Tempelhüpfen (de) n
• Greek: κουτσό (el) (kutsò) n 
• Hungarian: ugróiskola (hu)

• Japanese: 石蹴り (ja) (いしけり, ishikeri)
• Macedonian: школица (mk) (škólica) f
• Malay: teng-teng (ms)
• Norwegian: paradis (no) n
• Portuguese: amarelinha (pt) f
• Russian: классики (ru) (klássiki) m pl 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: школица (sh) f

  Roman: školica (sh) f

• Spanish: rayuela (es) f

Verb

hopscotch (third-person singular simple present hopscotches, present participle hopscotching, simple past and past participle hopscotched)

1. (figuratively) To move by hopping.
2. (figuratively) To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by hopping.