jump rope

Pronunciation

 * Noun: jump always stressed ("used a jump rope")
 * Verb: rope sometimes stressed, but stress on jump also common ("let's jump rope" or "let's jump-rope")
 * Verb tenses always as follows: jumps rope; jump ropes; jumping rope; jump roping; jumped rope; jump roped.
 * Verb tenses always as follows: jumps rope; jump ropes; jumping rope; jump roping; jumped rope; jump roped.

Noun



 * 1)  (also jump-roping, jumping rope) The activity, game or exercise in which a person must jump, bounce or skip repeatedly while a length of rope is swung over and under, both ends held in the hands of the jumper, or alternately, held by two other participants.
 * 2) The length of rope, sometimes with handles, casing or other additions, used in that activity.
 * 3)  A single jump in this game or activity, counted as a measure of achievement.
 * 4) * 2001, Matt Groening, “The Cyber House Rules”, Futurama, season 3, episode 11, transcript
 * S ALLY : One time, I did a hundred jump ropes.

Translations

 * Arabic: نَط اَلْحَبْل
 * Catalan: saltar a corda
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ŝnursaltado
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ugrókötelezés
 * Icelandic: sippuband
 * Japanese:
 * Marathi: दोरीउड्या
 * Mongolian: дээсээр тоглох
 * Norwegian: hoppetau
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: pula corda, saltar à corda
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lubid-luksuhan


 * Finnish: naruhyppy
 * French: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To repeatedly jump over a rope, the ends of which are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is swung under the feet and over the head of the jumper; to play the game of jump rope; to exercise by jumping rope.

Translations

 * Catalan: saltar a corda
 * Dutch:, [anglicism] (rope)skipping/skippen
 * Finnish: hypätä narua
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hindi: रस्सी कूदना
 * Hungarian: ugrókötelezik
 * Portuguese: pular corda
 * Swedish: hoppa hopprep