Editing Hopscotch (section)

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[[File:Hopscotch de Cubanese.jpg|thumb|Primary schoolchildren playing hopscotch in [[Cuba]], where the game is known as ''pon'']]
[[File:ICKA.gif|upright|thumb|Moves in a Hungarian hopscotch (the black dot being the stone, cast and retrieved)]]

'''Hopscotch''' is a [[playground]] game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Baker |first1=Kate |title=Laggers |url=https://doctorzeus.co/2015/01/09/laggers/ |website=Kathleen, [[Kage Baker|Kage]] and the Company |access-date=15 March 2022 |date=10 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gold |first1=David L. |title=Three New-York-Cityisms: Sliding Pond, Potsy, and Akey |journal=American Speech |date=Spring 1981 |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=17–32 |doi=10.2307/454476 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/454476 |jstor=454476 |quote=In the 1950s, the game was called hopscotch and the object thrown a lagger /'lagar/. [[:wiktionary:lagger|"Lagger"]] is related to the verb [[:wiktionary:lag|"lag"]] |url-access=subscription }}{{explain|reason -which of the 10 definitions?|date=October 2024}}</ref> into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object.<ref>{{cite web |title=Definition of HOPSCOTCH |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hopscotch |website=[[Merriam-Webster]] |access-date=15 March 2022 |language=en |quote=a child's game in which a player tosses an object (such as a stone) into areas of a figure outlined on the ground and hops through the figure and back to regain the object}}</ref> It is a [[children's game]] that can be played with several players or alone.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=O'Neil Bellomo |first=Rheanna |date=2024-05-06 |editor-last=Cilli |editor-first=Karen |title=Unique Ways to Play Hopscotch With Your Kids |url=https://www.parents.com/fun/activities/hopscotch/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=[[Parents (magazine)|Parents]]}}</ref> Hopscotch is a physical and cognitive [[Exercise|workout]].<ref name="movingsmartblog-hopscotch">{{cite web |last1=Mccarthy |first1=Cheryl |last2=Connell |first2=Gill |title=WHY HOPSCOTCH MATTERS |url=https://movingsmartblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/why-hopscotch-matters.html |website=Moving Smart |access-date=15 March 2022 |date=20 June 2012}}</ref><ref name="RER-2017-06-Welsh-Hopscotch">{{cite journal |last1=Welsh |first1=Richard O. |title=School Hopscotch: A Comprehensive Review of K–12 Student Mobility in the United States |journal=Review of Educational Research |date=June 2017 |volume=87 |issue=3 |pages=475–511 |doi=10.3102/0034654316672068 |s2cid=151488951 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44667664<!-- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0034654316672068 --> |access-date=15 March 2022|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="ecrj-1-1-Laely-Hopscotch">{{cite journal |last1=Laely |first1=Khusnul |last2=Yudi |first2=Dede |title=The Impact of Hopscotch Game towards the Growth of Kinesthetic Intelligence on 3-4 Year Old Children |journal=Early Childhood Research Journal |date=17 December 2018 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=21–28 |doi=10.23917/ecrj.v1i1.6581 |s2cid=149903485 |url=<!-- https://scholar.archive.org/work/cjwwlfly6jfmbebxhde6ex4uru/access/wayback/http://journals.ums.ac.id:80/index.php/ecrj/article/download/6581/4224 -->https://journals.ums.ac.id/index.php/ecrj/article/download/6581/4224 |access-date=15 March 2022|doi-access=free }}</ref>