jump rope rhyme

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...