hopscotch
verb
- to move quickly from place to place
- to move as if by hopping
noun
- children's game that can be played with several players or alone usually on a playground.
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/ / /ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/
noun
Etymology: From hop + scotch (“scratch”).
- 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.”
verb
Etymology: From hop + scotch (“scratch”).
- 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.”
- 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.”