How to Use hopscotch in a Sentence

hopscotch

1 of 2 noun
  • One bird twists his way up and down as if playing a game of hopscotch on the branch.
    — Mark Johanson, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • There were endless hands of cards and games of hopscotch and freeze tag on the terrace.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 5 July 2020
  • Check out the gardens, the front doors and porches, the hopscotch games, the weeds.
    — Bill McAuliffe, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
  • To get into any plot details past this point is to play hopscotch in a minefield.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • Set up a relay course around trees, pair up for three-legged races, or draw out a hopscotch court on the pavement.
    — Amy Roberts, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2011
  • Two girls played hopscotch at the entrance to a park, and children’s voices rang through the greenery.
    — Sophia Moskalenko, Vox, 2 July 2019
  • In our neighborhood, kids played stoop ball, hopscotch and stickball, with a broomstick.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
  • That’d be true for any sports franchise now, baseball, football, soccer, hopscotch.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2017
  • In the 30-second spot, a young girl is sitting in front of her house, drawing a hopscotch course with chalk.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2021
  • But the supercomputer race is nothing if not a game of hopscotch.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2018
  • But what sticks out the most is the eerie quiet of a place once packed with rambunctious kids playing tag, hopscotch, and jump rope.
    — Laura Mallonee, Wired, 10 May 2020
  • If everyone goes at it alone, the developments will be hopscotch.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Kids young and old can join in the variety of games including hopscotch, croquet and kid’s fishing.
    — Gabrielle Copeland Schoeffield, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 July 2019
  • Patel said the troop will return in the spring to add lettering, put in a hopscotch court and do some painting on the walkway.
    — cleveland, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Around the world, children have learned to swap their hopscotch, jump rope and basketball for scavenger hunts using windows.
    — Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Other new additions are tether ball courts, a hopscotch area — or fitness walk — and racing lanes for children.
    — Hank Beckman, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The former is muscular hopscotch, a change of direction that is as quick as a crossover is in shaming a card shark's shuffle.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 24 Dec. 2017
  • The hopscotch squares and sensory boards in the hallways are intended to help children transition from room to room.
    — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
  • On Sunday afternoon, children jumped from square to square, playing hopscotch atop the mice, as the structure creaked.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Hamlet leaping around the stage like a child playing hopscotch, or the chorus lined up and facing forward, rigid as automatons.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 18 May 2022
  • Abou Amadou's children play hopscotch in the sand outside his compound in the village of Chadakori in southern Niger.
    — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2023
  • At the far end, no more than a hopscotch game away from the dining room, a culinary team moves through an open kitchen with the quiet precision of an orchestra mid-performance.
    — Lanee Lee, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The episodic subplots hopscotch between pop culture references, urban odysseys and, of course, animal puns.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Though playing on the tennis team or taking gymnastics are likely to be as good for the brain as for the body, so are riding bikes, tossing a frisbee and playing hopscotch.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
  • That’s why there was a Kids Zone beyond the right-field fence, with hopscotch and chalk, and a Wiffle Ball field beyond the fence in left.
    — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The North Building features fish and turtles, and the playground at the heart of the park is a huge hit with a giant chess gameboard, hopscotch and plenty more.
    — Brian Sodoma, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2019
  • Filled with jump ropes, hopscotch boards and ice-cream trucks, this joyful story transports kids to the care-free summers in Brooklyn that the legendary author had growing up.
    — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Percussion skips like a kid bopping through hopscotch squares, and we’re left wondering if whatever Bono – or any of us – is looking for will remain elusive.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The museum will have games, including horseshoes, bingo and hopscotch, plus there’ll be scavenger hunts, chalk for drawings, coloring sheets, word searches and more.
    — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2020
  • In addition, the playground features PVC pipe instruments and hopscotch.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018

hopscotch

2 of 2 verb
  • The tour hopscotched from city to city.
  • We hopscotched across the country.
  • One class with just three students played hopscotch six feet apart.
    — Melody Petersen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The Dalys have spent the better part of the past two months hopscotching the globe.
    — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
  • Music humming through the speakers hopscotched over decades from song to song.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The top four candidates have been hopscotching from one big Texas city to the next.
    — Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The top four candidates already have been hopscotching from big Texas city to the next.
    — Johnathan Tilove, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2020
  • But instead of doing all of this while hopscotching from place to place in life, I'm grounded.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2018
  • In fairness, for all of its exploding rats, this genre-hopscotching epic had to give us something sweet.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 5 July 2019
  • The plan, in a nutshell, is to hopscotch from Earth to the moon to Mars over several decades.
    — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Herman and his staff spent the last few weeks hopscotching from city to city for one final meeting with prospective Longhorns.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Nicole Zhao, 38, was one of many who had to wend, dodge, and hopscotch their way through barriers that had been set up on the roads.
    — Austin Ramzy, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Heard won’t have to worry about hopscotching between positions as a senior.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Apr. 2018
  • There’s a backpack on another, a pair of basketball players and hopscotch squares in the distance.
    — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2020
  • The couple’s French bulldog, Stella, has hopscotched the country with them.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Whether Greitens will follow through with plans to hopscotch around Missouri over the next week to sell his tax cut plan is not clear.
    — Jason Hancock, Bryan Lowry and Lindsay Wise, kansascity, 14 Jan. 2018
  • In the portal era, players hopscotch across the country annually in search of a better fit, or a bigger paycheck.
    — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The team fished Pickwick's mid-lake area from the bridge to Waterloo, hopscotching from spot to spot, though bass were few and far between.
    — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 5 July 2017
  • For more than a week, the mock battles spanned day and night, hopscotching the length of NATO’s eastern flank.
    — Laura King, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
  • Contesting small states Candidates hopscotched across smaller states in a search for delegates where traffic was lighter.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Negga was cast in Loving and Preacher at around the same time, and her last two years have been spent hopscotching between obligations.
    — Thomas Beller, Town & Country, 26 June 2017
  • To work there, the researchers buried barrels of fuel along the snowy coastline, creating makeshift depots that a helicopter could hopscotch between.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
  • They are quickly bandaged by one of the physical therapists who hopscotch the course, sometimes setting up massage tables lit by car headlights.
    — Stan Grossfeld, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
  • In sharp contrast, today’s downtown is becoming a place where residents, workers and visitors can hopscotch — park to park — from one end to the other.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Distances in Rajasthan are large, so the best way to hopscotch between these spots is to book a tour with a specialist like Red Savannah.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Sep. 2019
  • With most Purim celebrations canceled, the family planned their walk to the Purim event to hopscotch between easy access to shelters.
    — ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • By hopscotching hut to hut, a hiker or skier can complete a 50-mile jaunt at Hatcher Pass through some remarkable terrain.
    — Mike Campbell, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2017
  • And the long, leisurely days of summer (even if the kids are hopscotching across Baltimore for a hodge-podge of camps, like my three are) heighten the aggravation factor even more.
    — Tanika Davis, baltimoresun.com, 15 June 2017
  • Storr hopscotches over the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to arrive at Freud.
    — Gal Beckerman, The New Republic, 7 May 2018
  • Mayes allowed Greitens to use a private jet last month to travel the state when the governor was hopscotching Missouri to tout his tax cut proposal.
    — Jason Hancock, Bryan Lowry and Lindsay Wise, kansascity, 5 Mar. 2018

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