skipping rope

skip rope

To hop repeatedly over a length of rope that is swung over one's head by oneself or by two other people. The coach made us skip rope for nearly 45 minutes as part of our conditioning. Geez, I haven't skipped rope since I was a kid. I don't know if I can even do it anymore!
See also: rope, skip

skipping rope

The act or practice of hopping repeatedly over a length of rope that is swung over one's head by oneself or by two other people. God, I hate skipping rope. I get tripped up so easily that I feel like I might as well be doing something else. Our family was pretty poor, so skipping rope was a cheap way to keep ourselves entertained as kids.
See also: rope, skip
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • skip rope
  • enough rope, to give (someone)
  • jump rope
  • rope
  • rope or an animal up
  • rope up
  • rope together
  • tug of war
  • take (a)hold
  • take hold
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"She was seven on Christmas Eve and her gran bought her a skipping rope and within 20 or 30 minutes she had taught herself to skip.
"I had my skipping rope in my bag and they said I can't bring it in.
Mr Grego said there was a skipping rope in the house which he believed belonged to Benedict's brother.
"Skipping rope helps you have a healthy heart while you're having fun.
They claim another young boy strangled him with the skipping rope, but the school insists that the incident was 'an accident.'.
Left, napkins, 20pk, paper plates, 20pk, acrylic bowl, food cover, ice bucket, flying disc, skipping rope, water dispenser and beach mat, PS1 each, all Poundland.
REMEMBER how much fun you had playing chase as a youngster, or mastering those skipping rope routines during school lunch breaks?
Millionaire gangster Barry Hughes has been banned from taking his boxing gloves and skipping rope to prison.
A CHEATING husband threw his wife to her death down the stairs then left a skipping rope by her body to make it look accidental, a court heard.
WHEN little Chloe David came home from school one day with burn marks on her wrists her parents were told she'd been "hurt" in an incident with a skipping rope.
I hope the boxing authorities tell him if he wants to keep his beard to throw his skipping rope and gum shield in the bin.
Hours later he went into his garden in Wimbledon, South West London, and tried to hang himself from a tree with a skipping rope - but the rope snapped.
It's the skipping rope. If the Government brought that back, under the auspices of the NHS on free prescription to help fight off obesity, it would go a long way to alleviating the pain and suffering that this epidemic has caused both patients and the Chancellor's purse.
He added that Mr Ayala ``had a couple of wobbles'' and there was a moment when the skipping rope caught a frill on his clothes,but he was ``fine, very steady''.