A rope, ideally with handles on each end, that you either:

  1. hold in one's own hands and whirl it over your head and under your feet while jumping whenever it would otherwise smack you in the calf, or:
  2. Get two other people to stand on either side of you and whirl it while you jump over it.

Often accompanied by jump rope rhymes when children do it.

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