hopscotch
/ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/US/ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/
hopscotch noun: 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.
Noun
hopscotch (uncountable)
- 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.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
Verb
hopscotch (third-person singular simple present hopscotches, present participle hopscotching, simple past and past participle hopscotched)
- 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.2022 April 6, Michael Steinberger, “How the ‘Homeless Billionaire’ Became a Philosopher King”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- 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.1979 April 28, Pat M. Kuras, “Connecting With Women”, in Gay Community News, page 15
hopscotch meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
hopscotch in Hindi
- child's game
- हेपस्काच hepaskāc
hopscotch in Tamil
- child's game
- நொண்டி noṇṭi
hopscotch in Urdu
- hopscotch
- اتی بتی ittī bittī
hopscotch in Kannada
- ಕುಂಟಾಟ
More languagesFewer languages
- hopscotch in Punjabi
- ਪੀਚੋ ਬੱਕਰੀ pīco bakkarī
- hopscotch in Tagalog
- piko
- hopscotch in Malay
- teng-teng
- hopscotch in Persian
- لیلی ley-ley
Synonyms of hopscotch
Forms of hopscotch
| third-person singular present | hopscotches |
|---|---|
| present participle | hopscotching |
| past participle | hopscotched |
| past | hopscotched |
Origin of hopscotch
From hop + scotch (“scratch”).
Words formed from hopscotch
Questions about hopscotch
- What does hopscotch mean?
- Hopscotch means 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.
- What is hopscotch in Hindi?
- Hopscotch in Hindi is हेपस्काच (hepaskāc). See Hopscotch meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hopscotch?
- Hopscotch can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce hopscotch?
- Hopscotch is pronounced /ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/ (US).
Words near hopscotch in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hopscotch (page history and authors); اتی بتی (Urdu) (page history and authors); hopscotch (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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