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skip rope

skip rope verb: to jump over a rope, both of whose ends are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is moved under the jumper's feet in a continual rhythm; to play the game of jump rope or exercise by jumping rope.

Verb

skip rope (third-person singular simple present skips rope, present participle skipping rope, simple past and past participle skipped rope)

  1. (idiomatic) To jump over a rope, both of whose ends are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is moved under the jumper's feet in a continual rhythm; to play the game of jump rope or exercise by jumping rope.
    Synonyms:
    jump rope

Noun

skip rope (plural skip ropes)

  1. The rope used in this activity.
    • Where do children's rhymes come from? What ancient motif is simply reclothed in a modern story or a children's skip-rope song?1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 11

skip rope meaning in Bengali

skip rope in Bengali

এই কাজে ব্যবহৃত দড়ি

Synonyms of skip rope

Forms of skip rope

Verb
third-person singular presentskips rope
present participleskipping rope
past participleskipped rope
pastskipped rope
Noun
pluralskip ropes

Questions about skip rope

What does skip rope mean?
Skip rope means to jump over a rope, both of whose ends are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is moved under the jumper's feet in a continual rhythm; to play the game of jump rope or exercise by jumping rope.
What is skip rope in Bengali?
Skip rope in Bengali is এই কাজে ব্যবহৃত দড়ি. See Skip rope meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is skip rope?
Skip rope can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of skip rope?
The past tense of skip rope is skipped rope.

Words near skip rope in the dictionary

  1. skip lists
  2. skip lorries
  3. skip lorry
  4. skip out
  5. skip printing
  6. skip rope
  7. skip ropes
  8. skip school
  9. skip the line
  10. skip town
  11. skip tracer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skip rope (page history and authors); skip rope (Bengali 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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