mass noun
- a children's game in which each child by turn hops into and over squares marked on the ground to retrieve a marker thrown into one of these squares（儿童游戏）跳房子。
no obj., with adverbial of direction
- N. Amer. travel from place to place〈北美〉迁徙; 辗转迁移：
they hopscotched around eight Western states.
他们在西部八个州辗转迁移。
词源
early 19th cent.: from HOP1+ SCOTCH1 .