Definition of "hopscotch" []

• 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. (noun)
• To move in or as if in a series of irregular jumps: "hopscotching across dozens of new cable channels” ( Harry F. Waters). (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "KRESKIN: Also a game called hopscotch which most people don't know about today."
• "I am thinking I really need one of these multipocket skirts -- especially the "hopscotch" version."
• "The asphalt was scarred with pools of black and white scorch marks, where the ARP people had used their stirrup pumps to smother the things; so Suzie played a kind of hopscotch, dodging between the little tail fins and what was left of the melted tubular casings and the burned-out thermite."