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/ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/ · noun
(playground games) 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.
As he hopscotched around the world on his Gulfstream IV — he got rid of his homes but kept his private plane — he found himself spending more and more time in Los Angeles, and he also rediscovered his interest in politics and philosophy.
Although the events described hop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion ^([sic]) and is rarely rambling.
Use hopscotch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hopscotch means (playground games) 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..
Common synonyms include hopper, peevers.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.
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