What is "hopscotches"

Usage examples of "hopscotches".

There it shrinks weirdly to a one-block-wide corridor, sneaks up to Dania, darts back down to Pembroke Park, hopscotches west to Miramar, slithers south to Hialeah, then angles sharply toward Sweetwater.

For short distances, an uvvy signal hopscotches from one uvvy to the next.