Editing Stone skipping (section)

==Names==
* English: "skipping stones" or "skipping rocks" (North America); "lobsta cutting" (Cape Cod, North America); "stone skimming" or "ducks and drakes" (Britain); Skliffing<ref>[https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/skliff "SKLIFF 4. To make (a flat stone) skip over water]  Dictionary of the Scots Language"</ref> or "skiting"<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4280078.stm "Scots dominate in stone skimming"] - BBC News, 25 September 2005</ref> (Scotland) and "stone skiffing" (Ireland)<ref>The Secrets of Stone Skipping, Coleman-McGhee, 1996, {{ISBN|1-883856-01-9}}</ref>
* [[Bengali language|Bengali]]: "frog jumps" (''Bengbaji''); "kingfisher" (''Machhranga'')
* [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]]: "frogs" (жабки)
* [[Cantonese language|Cantonese]]: "skipping (little) stones" (片石(仔)) [''pin3 sek6 (zai2)'']
* [[Catalan language|Catalan]]: "making step-stone bridges" (''fer passeres''); "making furrows" (''fer rigalets''); "skipping stones" (''llençar passanelles'')
* [[Czech language|Czech]]: "to make/throw froggies" (''dělat (házet) žabky/žabičky'' – countrywide and generally intelligible); "to make ducks/drakes/ducklings" (''dělat kačky/kačeny/kačery/kačenky/káčata/káčírky'' - in East Bohemia and parts of [[Moravia]]); "little fishes" (''rybičky/rybky''); "saucers" (''mističky''); "plates/dishes" (''talíře''); "wagtails" (''podlisky/podlíšky/lyšky''); "divers" (''potápky''); "pot-lids" (''pokličky/pukličky''); "flaps" (''plisky/plesky''); "plops" (''žbluňky''); "darts" (''šipky''); "bubbles" (''bubliny''); "[[Jew]]s" (''židy''); "figures" (''páni/panáky''); "gammers"/"wagtails" (''babky''); "dolls"/"girls"/"dragonflies" (''panenky''); "to ferry [[Virgin Mary]]" (''převážet panenku Mariu'')<ref>''Český jazykový atlas 1'' (Czech Language Atlas 1), Academia, Prague, 2004, pp. 110–113, ''(dělat) žabky''</ref>
* [[Danish language|Danish]]: "slipping" (''smut'' or ''at smutte''); "to make slips" (''at slå smut'')
* [[Dutch language|Dutch]]: "bouncing" (''ketsen'')
* [[Estonian language|Estonian]]: "throwing a [[burbot]]" (''lutsu viskama'')
* [[Finnish language|Finnish]]: "throwing breads/sandwiches" (''heittää leipiä/voileipiä'')
* [[French language|French]]: "making ricochets" (''faire des ricochets'')
* [[German language|German]]: "stone skipping" (''Steinehüpfen''); colloquially i.a. "flitting" (''flitschen'', old synonym of ''schwirren'', "whirring"), its diminutive ''flitscheln'', and "bouncing" (''ditschen'', a variant of ''titschen''); older synonyms rarely used are i.a. "leading the bride" (''die Braut führen''), "throwing frogs" (''Frösche werfen''), "shooting/throwing maids/virgins" (''Jungfern schießen/werfen''), "skiffing" (''schiffeln'', ''schippern''), "springing" (''schnellern'', from ''schnellen'', "springing" or "darting"), and "pebbling" (''steineln'')
* [[Greek language|Greek]]: "little frogs" (''βατραχάκια'')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.slang.gr/search/user/8273 |title=Ορισμοί του χρήστη: σφυρίζων - slang.gr |access-date=2013-07-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803051001/http://www.slang.gr/search/user/8273 |archive-date=2013-08-03 }}</ref>
* [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]: "making it to waddle", lit. "making it walk like a duck" (''kacsáztatás'')
* [[Italian language|Italian]]: ''rimbalzello''
* [[Japanese language|Japanese]]: "cutting water" (「水切り」[''mizu kiri''])
* [[Korean language|Korean]]: ''mulsujebi'' (물수제비), meaning water ({{korean|hangul=물|rr=mul}}) and [[Korean cuisine|Korean soup]] ''[[sujebi]]''.
* [[Latvian language|Latvian]]: "throwing (stone) froggies" (''mest (akmens) vardītes'')
* [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]]: "making frogs" (''daryti varlytes'')
* [[Macedonian Language|Macedonian]]: "frogs" (жабчиња)
* [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]]: ''da shui piao'' (打水漂)
* [[Marathi language|Marathi]]: ''bhakrya kadhne''
* [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]]: "making the rabbit leap" (''tuulai kharailgakh''); "making the dog lick" (''nokhoi doloolgokh'') 
* [[Nigerian language|Nigerian]]: "the way a dragonfly skips across the water" (''lami lami'')
* [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]: "fish bounce" (''fiskesprett'')
* [[Polish language|Polish]]: "letting the ducks out" (''puszczanie kaczek'')
* [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] "water shearing" ("capar a água");<ref>{{cite book|first=José|last=Leite de Vasconcellos|date=1882|title=Tradições populares de Portugal|location=Porto|url=https://archive.org/details/tradicoespopular00vasc/page/71/mode/2up|publisher= Livraria portuense de Clavel & ca. |page=76}}</ref> "making tiny hats" ("fazer chapeletas")<ref>{{cite book|first=Antonio|last=Vieyra|date=1860|title=	A Dictionary of the English and Portuguese Languages: In Two Parts, English and Portuguese, and Portuguese and English, Volume 1|location=london|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=yQktAAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PP146&hl=en_GB&q=chapeletae|publisher=Luke Hansard|page=142}}</ref>
* [[Romanian language|Romanian]] "making frogs" ("a face broaşte")
* [[Russian language|Russian]]: "pancakes" (блинчики [''Blinchiki'']); "frogs" (лягушки [''Lyagushki''])
* [[Serbo-Croatian]]: "(to throw) little frogs" ([''bacati''] ''žabice'') 
* [[Spanish language|Spanish]]: "making white-caps" (''hacer cabrillas''); "making little frogs" (''hacer ranitas''); making ducklings (''hacer patitos'')
* [[Swedish language|Swedish]]: "throwing a sandwich" (''kasta smörgås'' or ''kasta macka'')
* [[Telugu language|Telugu]]: "frog jumps" (''kappa gantulu'')
* [[Turkish language|Turkish]]: "skimming stone" (''taş sektirme'')
* [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]: "letting the frogs out" (''zapuskaty zhabky'')
* [[Persian language|Farsi]]/Persian: "Syrian bashing" (''سوری زدن'')
*[[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]]: "ricochet" (ném thia lia); "tossing stone" (liếc đá, lia đá)