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Jump Rope

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jump-Rope.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/25/2007 Jump Rope Transcript Starting in second or third grade and all the way into middle school, we girls used to play jump rope at recess. Two of us would warm the rope up by swinging it, while the rest of us got into […]

Spring — and Jump Rope — is Here Again

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spring-and-Jump-Rope.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/20/2002 Spring and Jump Rope Transcript Ah, let the games begin. In spring festivals in ancient Greece and Rome, young people would jump over vines, not only to show their physical prowess, but to predict how high that year’s crops would grow. We don’t […]