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Children's game
Answer for the clue "Children's game ", 9 letters:
hopscotch
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Word definitions for hopscotch in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1801 (from 1789 as hop-scot ), from hop (v.) + scotch (n.2) "scratch," from the lines scored in the dirt to make the squares for the game.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hopscotch is a 1980 American film directed by Ronald Neame and produced by Edie Landau and Ely A. Landau . It was written by Bryan Forbes and Brian Garfield , based on Garfield's novel of the same name . The film is a comedy starring Walter Matthau as Miles ...
Usage examples of hopscotch.
If only Hopscotch She stopped herself before she could finish the thought.
She turned to see the old carny, Hopscotch, standing across the midway, watching her.
She saw a shadow move on her right, and she spun her left foot just in time to catch Hopscotch before it could reach her throat.
Rough hands grabbed her and dragged her to her feet, and Buffy recognized most of the carnies: Lonnie, Hopscotch, Rose, and the guy who ran the basketball booth.
While he sang in a strange language, Hopscotch smudged his body with the burning torch until he looked like a grilled fish.
Perfectimundo finds Miriam, it is a complete surprise, a game of hopscotch in which the stone falls into the perfect center of square 3.
He looks to where children play hopscotch beneath the awning of the truck axle company.
In the middle distance some children played hopscotch and bowling the penny.
Rhys would probably ask her to hopscotch into a fresh, rested body so she could finish the job.
Rhys selected the body that most interested him and commanded Teresa to hopscotch with her.
She was obviously conversant with this place, and knew where to place each hoof, as a child knew where to jump amid the squares of a hopscotch game, proficient from long practice.
Only in GENERAL did he have a fair chance, with things like hopscotch, horseshoes, or jacks.
Johnny hanging off the front porch rail, Kikit playing hopscotch along the gently curved walk.
Children played ball, hopscotch and one girl jumped rope, right beneath our apartment windows.
I stood at the fence looking at the children playing hopscotch, and various other games.