jump rope rhyme

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Also known as: skip rope rhyme
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skip rope rhyme
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jump rope rhyme, any of innumerable chants and rhymes used by children, traditionally girls, to accompany the game of jump rope. Based on a few simple forms, such rhymes characteristically travel very quickly in variation from child to child, in contrast to nursery rhymes, which are passed on by parents to their children. Because of the speed of transmission and transformation of jump rope rhymes, a logical chant may appear a short time later in totally nonsensical form. Rhymes may also be derived from popular songs or folk songs, or military songs during wartime, and two or more may be ...(100 of 200 words)