hop-skip

When Ferrero sent a service return into the doubles alley on match point, Kuerten reacted with a gleeful hop-skip behind the baseline, fist raised.

USATODAY.com - Kuerten, Corretja reach final 2001

She did a little hop-skip as she entered, tossing the stack of transport containers containing her growing medical disk library on her bed.

The Best and The Brightest SUSAN WRIGHT 1998

As soon as that realization hit, that I was resisting a temptation, I immediately did a little hop-skip.

Sweet Myth-tery of Life Asprin, Robert 1994

A man came out of the stable, walking with a kind of hop-skip step.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

They may see sonnets in double-shuffle metre, doggerels in hop-skip iambics, and ordinary newspaper "ponies" with the rhythm of the St. Vitus dance.

The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs

Then, like a spring from which a weight has been lifted, like a cork flying out of a charged bottle, he did a high, leaping hop-skip straight into the air.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

"Home again!" he cried, feeling ready to do a hop-skip except that it would take away from the effect they had made.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

This last was accompanied by a solemn look at Mrs. Milo, and a roguish hop-skip that freed her from Sue's hold.

Apron-Strings Eleanor Gates 1913

Now as he did another hop-skip into the air, not so much because of animal spirits as through sheer mental relief, all that fringe whipped and snapped.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

"Alice, dance." -- and dance she would, not in such court-like measures as she had learned abroad, but Some high-paced jig, or hop-skip rigadoon, befitting the brisk lasses at a rustic merry-making.

The House of the Seven Gables 1851