Yahoo

Some Chinese parents are paying as much as $50 an hour to have their children tutored for jump roping

Many Chinese parents are enrolling their children in jump rope schools that cost $50 an hour in the hopes of landing scholarships through China’s national jump rope exams. No longer a playground ...
The Baltimore Sun

Learning the ropes: Precision jump rope team, Kangaroo Kids, has been competing and performing for 45 years

Howard County-based precision jump rope team Kangaroo Kids has been competing and performing for 45 years, from local elementary schools to University of Maryland halftime shows to the Macy’s ...
Yahoo

Miller creates hundreds of jump ropes for Operation Christmas Child

"I wasn't about to sew lace and ribbons on pillow-case dresses, so when Bill and Kathy Schemmel invited my wife, Phoebe, and me to help at the St. Paul's-Colon Operation Christmas Child workshop in ...
KPBS

With makeshift jump ropes and hide and seek, kids play to cope with crisis

In a refugee camp in Bangladesh, children jump rope with chains of rubber bands. In wartime Gaza, kids fly kites made from discarded parachutes. And in Ukraine, youngsters tussle in make-believe war, ...
St. Louis American

Working With Jump Rope Math

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OPB

With makeshift jump ropes and hide and seek, kids play to cope with crisis

Rohingya refugee children find a place to hang out and play amid the construction at the refugee camp outside of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. In a refugee camp in Bangladesh, children jump rope with ...