"hopscotch" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/ [US], /ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hopscotch.wav [Southern-England]
Etymology: hop + scotch (“scratch”) Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hop|scotch|t2=scratch}} hop + scotch (“scratch”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} hopscotch (uncountable)
  1. (playground games) 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. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Playground games, Games Synonyms: hopper Derived forms: hopscotch hashing Translations (child's game): կլաս (klas) (Armenian), դասարանախաղ (dasaranaxaġ) (Armenian), cascayu [masculine] (Asturian), дама (dama) [feminine] (Bulgarian), xarranca [feminine] (Catalan), خەتخەتێن (xetxetên) (Central Kurdish), خەستەکێن (xestekên) (Central Kurdish), 跳房子 (tiàofángzi) (Chinese Mandarin), 跳格子 (tiàogézi) (Chinese Mandarin), hinkelen [neuter] (Dutch), paradizludo (Esperanto), marelo (Esperanto), keks (Estonian), keksumäng (Estonian), ruutuhyppely (Finnish), marelle [feminine] (French), mariola [feminine] (Galician), peletre [masculine] (Galician), კლასობანა (ḳlasobana) (Georgian), Hickelkasten [masculine] (German), Hüpfspiel [neuter] (German), Paradiesspiel [neuter] (German), Himmel und Hölle (German), Tempelhüpfen [neuter] (German), Hinkelspiel [neuter] (German), Hinkeln [neuter] (German), κουτσό (koutsó) [neuter] (Greek), हेपस्काच (hepaskāc) (Hindi), ugróiskola (Hungarian), campana [feminine] (Italian), 石蹴り (ishikeri) (alt: いしけり) (Japanese), 사방치기 (sabangchigi) (Korean), школица (školica) [feminine] (Macedonian), teng-teng (Malay), hīkeikei (Maori), kupînoz [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), teytok [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), paradis [neuter] (Norwegian), لیلی (ley-ley) (Persian), klasy [feminine, plural] (Polish), amarelinha [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), macaca [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), ਪੀਚੋ ਬੱਕਰੀ (pīco bakkarī) [feminine] (Punjabi), șotron [neuter] (Romanian), кла́ссики (klássiki) [masculine, plural] (Russian), школица [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), školica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), chiappeḍḍa [feminine] (Sicilian), ciancateḍḍu [masculine] (Sicilian), tririticchete [masculine] (Sicilian), rayuela [feminine] (Spanish), bebeleche [Mexico, masculine] (Spanish), luche [Chile, masculine] (Spanish), peregrina [feminine] (Spanish), hoppa hage (Swedish), piko (Tagalog), seksek (Turkish), taxhea [masculine] (Walloon), paradis [masculine] (Walloon)
    Sense id: en-hopscotch-en-noun-vsA9Fzng Disambiguation of Games: 69 13 18 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 10 13 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 62 16 23

Verb

IPA: /ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/ [US], /ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hopscotch.wav [Southern-England] Forms: hopscotches [present, singular, third-person], hopscotching [participle, present], hopscotched [participle, past], hopscotched [past]
Etymology: hop + scotch (“scratch”) Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hop|scotch|t2=scratch}} hop + scotch (“scratch”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} hopscotch (third-person singular simple present hopscotches, present participle hopscotching, simple past and past participle hopscotched)
  1. (intransitive, figuratively) To move by hopping. Tags: figuratively, intransitive
    Sense id: en-hopscotch-en-verb-mdMyNeW2
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if by hopping. Tags: figuratively, intransitive
    Sense id: en-hopscotch-en-verb-niEu9Gxw

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "child's game",
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "ਪੀਚੋ ਬੱਕਰੀ"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
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          "word": "șotron"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "child's game",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "chiappeḍḍa"
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          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
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          "word": "ciancateḍḍu"
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          "code": "scn",
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          "sense": "child's game",
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          "word": "tririticchete"
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "child's game",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "rayuela"
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "child's game",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "child's game",
      "word": "paradizludo"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "code": "et",
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      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "word": "keksumäng"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "child's game",
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "marelle"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "mariola"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "peletre"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "sense": "child's game",
      "word": "კლასობანა"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hickelkasten"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hüpfspiel"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Paradiesspiel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "word": "Himmel und Hölle"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Tempelhüpfen"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hinkelspiel"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hinkeln"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "koutsó",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "hi",
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      "sense": "child's game",
      "word": "हेपस्काच"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "child's game",
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "campana"
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      "alt": "いしけり",
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      "roman": "ishikeri",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "word": "石蹴り"
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sabangchigi",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "word": "사방치기"
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      "code": "ckb",
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      "roman": "xetxetên",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "word": "خەتخەتێن"
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      "code": "ckb",
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      "word": "خەستەکێن"
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      "code": "kmr",
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      "code": "kmr",
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      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "teytok"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
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      "sense": "child's game",
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      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
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      "word": "teng-teng"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "word": "hīkeikei"
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      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "child's game",
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      "word": "paradis"
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    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "ley-ley",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "word": "لیلی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "klasy"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "amarelinha"
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      "sense": "child's game",
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      "word": "macaca"
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      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "pīco bakkarī",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ਪੀਚੋ ਬੱਕਰੀ"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "șotron"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "klássiki",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "кла́ссики"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "школица"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "scn",
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      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "chiappeḍḍa"
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      "code": "scn",
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      "word": "ciancateḍḍu"
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      "code": "scn",
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      "sense": "child's game",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "rayuela"
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      "sense": "child's game",
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      "word": "bebeleche"
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      "sense": "child's game",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "child's game",
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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "child's game",
      "word": "piko"
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "child's game",
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      "sense": "child's game",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "wa",
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