hopscotch

English

Etymology

hop +‎ scotch (“scratch”)

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈhapˌskatʃ/
IPA^(key): /ˈhɒpˌskɒtʃ/

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.

Synonyms

hoppers

Translations

child's game

Armenian: կլաս (klas), դասարանախաղ (hy) (dasaranaxał)
Asturian: cascayu m
Bulgarian: дама (bg) f (dama)
Catalan: xarranca f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 跳房子 (zh) (tiàofángzi), 跳格子 (tiàogézi)
Dutch: hinkelen (nl) n
Esperanto: paradizludo
Finnish: ruutuhyppely (fi)
French: marelle (fr) f
Galician: mariola (gl) f, peletre m
Georgian: კლასობანა (ḳlasobana)
German: Hickelkasten m, Hüpfspiel (de) n, Paradiesspiel n, Himmel und Hölle (de), Tempelhüpfen (de) n
Greek: κουτσό (el) n (koutsó)
Hungarian: ugróiskola (hu)
Japanese: 石蹴り (いしけり, ishikeri)

Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خەستەکێن‎ (xestekên)
Macedonian: школица f (škólica)
Malay: teng-teng
Maori: hīkeikei
Norwegian: paradis n
Persian: لی‌لی‎ (ley-ley)
Polish: klasy (pl) f pl
Portuguese: amarelinha (pt) f
Russian: кла́ссики (ru) m pl (klássiki)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: школица f
Roman: školica (sh) f
Spanish: rayuela f, bebeleche m (Mexico)
Tagalog: piko
Walloon: taxhea (wa) m, paradis m

Verb

hopscotch (third-person singular simple present hopscotches, present participle hopscotching, simple past and past participle hopscotched)

(intransitive, figuratively) To move by hopping.
(intransitive, figuratively) To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by hopping. (Can we add an example for this sense?)