hopscotch
noun/ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/US/ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/
Etymology
Definitions
A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one…
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.
- No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.
To move by hopping.
- As he hopscotched around the world on his Gulfstream IV — he got rid of his homes but kept his private plane — he found himself spending more and more time in Los Angeles, and he also rediscovered his interest in politics and philosophy.
To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if by hopping.
- Although the events described hop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion ^([sic]) and is rarely rambling.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hopscotch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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