From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhopscotchhop‧scotch /ˈhɒpskɒtʃ $ ˈhɑːpskɑːtʃ/ noun [uncountable]  
 DGa children’s game in which each child has to jump from one square drawn on the ground to another
                                                    
                                                
 DGa children’s game in which each child has to jump from one square drawn on the ground to anotherExamples from the Corpus
hopscotch• Little girls played tag and stoop-ball, hopscotch, skipped rope; big girls sat under the pine tree and whispered.• It wasn't squares for hopscotch.• The court pointed out that even a game of hopscotch could suddenly break into a fight resulting in serious injury.Origin hopscotch (1800-1900)  → HOP1 + scotch “line marked in a surface” ((15-19 centuries)) 
