hopscotch• Little girls played tag and stoop-ball, hopscotch, skippedrope; big girls sat under the pinetree and whispered.• It wasn't squares for hopscotch.• The courtpointed out that even a game of hopscotch could suddenly break into a fight resulting in seriousinjury.
Originhopscotch
(1800-1900) → HOP1 + scotch“line marked in a surface”((15-19 centuries))