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skipathon

noun

Etymology

From skip + -athon.

  1. derived from *ksewbʰ-✻
  2. derived from *skupjaną✻
  3. derived from skippen
  4. suffixed as skipathon — “skip + athon”

Definitions

  1. A charity event in which participants jump rope.

    • In 2006 a mass skipathon had 7632 children skipping continuously for three minutes at 85 locations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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