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Definition of Hop-step-and-jump
1. Noun. An athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hop-step-and-jump
Literary usage of Hop-step-and-jump
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century by Christopher Wordsworth (1874)
"... hop-step-and-jump, and among the rest, skittles; which last is a truly academical
exercise, as it is founded on arithmetical and geometrical principles. ..."
2. Gymnastic Teaching by William Skarstrom (1921)
"Three standing hops forward, from left and right foot. Standing hop, step and
jump, starting from left and right foot. Three standing broad jumps. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"Touching behind in place" would also be bewitching, and the preparatory, movements
would form an easy introduction to a running hop-step-and-jump to ..."
4. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"... step, and jump," where each foot touches the ground once between taking off
and alighting finally. The best " hop, step, and jump "no record is ..."
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