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# hopscotch

noun (hopscotch — uncountable)

«hopscotch» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hopscotch/#m1)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hopscotch/#x1)
- In hopscotch you hop on one foot in the single squares. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hopscotch/#x2)
- I threw my stone onto square five. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hopscotch/#x3)
- She lost her balance and stepped on a line, so it was my turn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hopscotch/#x4)
- Our playground has a hopscotch painted on it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hopscotch/#x5)
- We played hopscotch counting in twos. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hopscotch/#x6)
- Some played at marbles, at hopscotch, at ball. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hopscotch/#x7)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hopscotch» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hopscotch/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hopscotch» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hopscotch.html) on Mova free.