skipping rhyme

Like most folklore, skipping rhymes tend be found in many different variations.

Another skipping rhyme, but is more modern.

Skipping rhymes don't always have to be rhymes, however.

That's a skipping rhyme,' she said coldly.

They taught it to their English comrades and it later became a child's skipping rhyme, both in England and the Netherlands.

A child's skipping rhyme drifted in from the street: Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, Kiss the girls and make them cry.

"Skipping Rhymes" (traditional; arranged MacGowan)

A skipping rhyme (occasionally skipping-rope rhyme or jump-rope rhyme), is a rhyme chanted by children while skipping.

It seems to have spread over the USA by the 1950s and reached Britain in 1959, where it was taken up very quickly across the country to become one of the most popular skipping rhymes among girls.

The origin of the connection between vinegar and a skipping girl is a skipping rhyme, usually "salt, vinegar, mustard, pepper, if I dare, I can do better..." to which the rope would be spun faster.

He had contributed several pieces of music to the BBC, including a theme for Radio 4 based on a children's skipping rhyme introduced in 1973 (called A Skipping Tune), which was replaced by the Radio 4 UK Theme.