hopscotch

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  1. noun A children's game in which players toss a small object into the numbered spaces of a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces to retrieve the object.
  2. intransitive verb To move in or as if in a series of irregular jumps: "hopscotching across dozens of new cable channels” (Harry F. Waters).

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  • Sarah Corde, nine years old, cared nothing for school, hopscotch, Simon Says, housework, Nintendo, sewing, cooking, cartoons on TV. —  The Lesson of Her Death
  • “Hous-ing, Work and Bus-i-ness, Ed-uc-ation-and-Health, Muuu-ni-cipal and ... Gustooo!” The rhythmic litany of kindergarten, the refrains of hopscotch or skipping rope, plays over and over and over in your head. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#216
  • Martin: It was a bit like translator's hopscotch, jumping over each other as we moved forward. —  Chinalyst - China blogs in English
  • My bright beautiful hopscotch is now wet and fading. —  Life and Photos
  • The timeline plays hopscotch, bouncing from the game show to flashbacks to flash-forwards of Jamal being questioned by a police inspector (the great Irrfan Khan, criminally underused) for allegedly cheating on the show. —  Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews
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