Jump Rope Research Articles

The Serious Side of Jump Rope: Conversational Practices and Social Organization in the Frame of Play

TYPICALLY THE STUDY OF GAMES AND PLAY by folklorists and anthropologists alike has been directed toward examination of traditional lore or play forms to the exclusion of the social interaction that occurs within play. As Schwartzman has argued, fact that play requires active engagement by players seems . . . obvious, and yet this criterion has frequently been overlooked by researchers who focus either on the collection and categorization of texts or the analysis of contexts (Schwartzman 1978:327, emphasis in the original). The present study focuses explicitly upon texts of conversational activities occurring in the course of a game of jump rope, rather than upon its rhymes (Abrahams 1969) or social context. By directing attention explicitly to analysis of social interaction occurring in the midst of games, it becomes possible to evaluate two alternative positions regarding the type of framing of that children's games provide. On the one hand, a number of influential researchers have posited that games set up particularframes set apart fom ordinary (Piaget 1962, 1965 [1932]; Goffman 1967:269-270; Huizinga 1955; Caillois 1961; Opie and Opie 1969:3; Sutton-Smith 1966). From this perspective, as recently stated by Fine (1983:183), games allow one to cut oneself off from other realms of experience and provide alternative social worlds in which individuals can become involved. In contrast to this position, researchers such as Hughes (1983:40), Denzin (1977:171-172), Schwartzman (1978:327), and Garvey (1974:179) maintain that continuity exists between games and ordinary experience. For example, Sacks (1980:324) and Speier (1976:181), who builds upon Sacks's 1968 analysis, have argued that contrary to the popular belief that games are divorced from everyday experience, children may in fact discover how social order works through game participation. The thrust of this paper will be to describe ways in which interaction occurring in the midst of a specific play activity, jump rope, is continuous with that outside the play frame. Conflict is as inherent in the games of girls as it is in their everyday dealings with one

Jump Rope for Heart: A Collegiate Special Event

Jump Rope for Heart: A Collegiate Special Event

ChemInform Abstract: JUMP ROPE ENANTIOMERIZATION OF 1,5‐NAPHTHALENOPHANES AS A PROBE OF POLYMETHYLENE CHAIN CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS

Chemischer InformationsdienstVolume 14, Issue 39 Physical Organic Chemistry ChemInform Abstract: JUMP ROPE ENANTIOMERIZATION OF 1,5-NAPHTHALENOPHANES AS A PROBE OF POLYMETHYLENE CHAIN CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS M. H. CHANG, M. H. CHANGSearch for more papers by this authorD. A. DOUGHERTY, D. A. DOUGHERTYSearch for more papers by this author M. H. CHANG, M. H. CHANGSearch for more papers by this authorD. A. DOUGHERTY, D. A. DOUGHERTYSearch for more papers by this author First published: September 27, 1983 https://doi.org/10.1002/chin.198339069AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume14, Issue39September 27, 1983 RelatedInformation

Jump rope enantiomerization of 1,5-naphthalenophanes as a probe of polymethylene chain conformational dynamics

Jump rope enantiomerization of 1,5-naphthalenophanes as a probe of polymethylene chain conformational dynamics

Behavioral school psychology goes outdoors: the effect of organized games on playground aggression.

This research focuses on the inappropriate, largely aggressive, behaviors of 344 K-2 children assigned to a playground prior to the beginning of the school day. Initially, a system for observing large numbers of children freely roaming over a large, open area was developed. This observational method was then used to determine the effectiveness of providing organized games for reducing potentially dangerous playground behaviors. Using a reversal (ABAB) design, it was found that the games, rope jumping, and foot racing, along with an infrequently used time-out procedure, significantly reduced the frequency of inappropriate incidents. It is suggested that when dealing with large groups, antecedent environmental manipulations may be more practical than providing consequences for the behaviors exhibited by identified individuals.

Jump Rope for Heart

(1983). Jump Rope for Heart. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance: Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 5-5.

Jump Rope for Heart: An Open Letter to Alliance Members from President Everett—

Jump Rope for Heart: An Open Letter to Alliance Members from President Everett—

We're Jumping Rope for Heart

We're Jumping Rope for Heart

Children's Verbal Folk Games

Children's Verbal Folk Games Edith Fowke Children's verbal folk games are noteworthy for the colorful songs, chants, and rhymes that set their patterns. They include the traditional singing games and such related activities as skipping, ball bouncing, clapping, and counting out. These are the peculiar property of children and should be distinguished from nursery rhymes which originate with adults and are taught to children. There is some overlapping, but we are concerned with the rhymes that children learn from other children and pass on to younger ones in their turn. They are transmitted primarily in schoolyards and playgrounds by youngsters between the ages of five and eleven. Today some of the singing games and other chants are being taught in nursery schools and kindergartens, thus interrupting the traditional chain, but all the items recommended in this article are based on material collected directly from children. Full data for items mentioned by author and title appear in the bibliography; it is restricted to books because the literature is very extensive. The records listed present children's games as sung by children except for The Singing Streets, a fascinating exchange of childhood memories from Scotland and Ireland. Two comprehensive survey books which contain examples of many different kinds of children's rhymes are the Opies' The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren for England and the Knapps' One Potato, Two Potato for the United States. A more limited but very informative little book is Rutherford's All the Way to Pennywell which describes the major writing about children's rhymes, summarizes the theories of their origin, function, and form, and provides a fairly extensive bibliography. Also of interest for their commentary as well as their rhymes are such other British collections as Holbrook's Children's Games, Daiken's Children's Games Throughout the Year, and Norman Douglas's London Street Games. Four fairly extensive national collections are Brady's All In! All In! for Ireland, Fowke's Sally Go Round the Sun for Canada, Turner's Cinderella Dressed in Yella for Australia, and Sutton-Smith's Games of New Zealand Children. The first three classify [End Page 16] the rhymes but give little discussion beyond descriptions of the games; Sutton-Smith provides more extensive commentary. In earlier times singing games were extremely popular as shown by the extensive nineteenth-century collections of Lady Gomme in the British Isles and W. E. Newell in the United States. In more recent times most of the formally patterned games seem to have lost their popularity, but many of the songs and chants associated with them have been adapted to new uses and now accompany skipping or ball bouncing. Skipping is probably the most widespread of all children's game activities today. Most books of children's lore include a substantial section on skipping rhymes, and there are numerous articles and a few books devoted entirely to this genre: for example, Evans' Jump Rope Rhymes and Worstell's Jump Rope Jingles. Incidentally, "jump-rope" rhymes is the usual term in the United States; in Britain and Canada they are "skipping" rhymes. Roger Abrahams has surveyed the enormous literature on this activity in his Jump-Rope Rhymes: A Dictionary, which gives 619 rhymes and an eight-page bibliography, and Robert Cosbey provides a good discussion of the patterns and subject matter. Counting out is an ancient and universal rite. Henry Bolton compiled rhymes from various countries in the nineteenth century. Walter Gregor collected some early Scottish forms, and Carl Withers recorded twentieth-century items in the United States. Counting-Out Rhymes: A Dictionary compiled by Abrahams and Rankin gives 582 patterns and ten pages of bibliographical items. Ball-bouncing rhymes are often interchangeable with skipping rhymes, although certain chants seem more associated with one or the other. I know of no books specifically on this form, but most collections of children's game lore include a section on ball bouncing, some describing the patterns that go with the texts. It is perhaps stretching the term a bit to include clapping songs under folk games, but the various rhythmic patterns that accompany certain chants require skill and coordination, qualities that distinguish many games. Clapping songs have...

Don't Underestimate Rope Jumping

(1977). Don't Underestimate Rope Jumping. Journal of Physical Education and Recreation: Vol. 48, No. 9, pp. 23-23.

Plus Values for Rope Jumping

(1966). Plus Values for Rope Jumping. Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation: Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 32-62.

Jump Rope Verses around the United States

Jump Rope Verses around the United States

Jump Rope Rhymes as Folk Literature

Jump Rope Rhymes as Folk Literature

Some Jump Rope Rhymes from Iowa

Some Jump Rope Rhymes from Iowa

The Jumping Rope

The Jumping Rope

The Jumping Rope

The Jumping Rope