hop-step-and-jump

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noun an athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement

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I will call for these Richardsons when I go back to Haddington: I like their hop-step-and-jump over ceremony, their oblivion in the enthusiasm of the moment that we had 'belonged to different circles'

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883
A deceased friend, who was a fellow-apprentice with me, used often to express his surprise that, after such a hop-step-and-jump perusal, I knew as much of the book as he had been able to acquire from reading it in the usual manner.

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824