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Definition of Skip rope
1. Noun. A length of rope (usually with handles on each end) that is swung around while someone jumps over it.
Definition of Skip rope
1. Verb. (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. ¹
2. Noun. The rope used in this activity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skip Rope
Literary usage of Skip rope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"Denoting the moment of the total friction and windage by M/ the resultant moment
M0 of the ascending ore skip, rope and friction and the descending skip and ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1911)
"Similarly, the moment Mt' of the force required for accelerating the descending
skip, rope, etc., may be found from the equation where £ W' = the sum of the ..."
3. Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers by American Institute of Mining Engineers (1910)
"Similarly, the moment MJ of the force required for accelerating the descending
skip, rope, etc., may be found from the equation where 2! ..."
4. Details of Practical Mining edited by Lee O. Kellogg (1916)
"Device for Holding skip rope (By L. Hall Goodwin). ... Hancock, Mich., for holding
the skip rope while one conveyance is being substituted for another on it ..."
5. Historical Plays of Colonial Days, for Fifth Year Pupils by Louise Emery Tucker, Estelle Leonidas Ryan (1912)
"Let us skip rope. (She runs over to a coil of rope.) Here is a nice, thin one.
... Captain Jones, please may we skip rope? CAPTAIN JONES. — Yes, yes. ..."
6. Transactions by American Institute of Mining Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME. (1911)
"Similarly, the moment Ms' of the force required for accelerating the descending
skip, rope, etc., may be found from the equation where 2 W' = the sum of the ..."
7. American Wire Rope Catalogue and Hand Book by American Steel & Wire Co (1913)
"skip rope. A wire rope attached to a skip or car in a mine or blast furnace hoist
Sling. A short piece of wire rope especially equipped for binding together ..."
8. American Wire Rope Catalogue and Hand Book by American Steel & Wire Co (1913)
"skip rope. A wire rope attached to a skip or car in a mine or blast furnace hoist
Sling. A short piece of wire rope especially equipped for binding together ..."
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