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

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

### In the corpora

- [Other playground games: cache-cache (hide and seek) and la marelle (hopscotch).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/17/)
- [Hopscotch is klAsyky, chalked on the pavement, a skipping rope is a skAkalka, and m'yach is any ball.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/14-your-turn-i-won-cheat-and-tag/3/)
- [klAsyky means hopscotch, drawn on the pavement with chalk.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/14-your-turn-i-won-cheat-and-tag/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hopscotch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hopscotch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.