hopscotch UK /ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/US /ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/verb 2noun 1forms 3 verb2 •(figurative) To move by hopping. •(figurative) To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if by hopping.Although the events described hop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion ^([sic]) and is rarely rambling. — 1979 noun1 •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.No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone. — 1922 formshopscotched · hopscotching · hopscotches
