skipathon

noun

skipathon

noun

Etymology From skip + -athon.

1

A charity event in which participants jump rope.

In 2006 a mass skipathon had 7632 children skipping continuously for three minutes at 85 locations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.2009, Adam Hart-Davis, Stringlopedia, page 51:

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