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Jump rope a varsity HS sport in NYC.
Aiming to get more kids involved in sports, NewYork City high schools are adding jump rope to the varsity sports roster. They expect to have 19 teams competing across the city by next year.
The district is adding Double Dutch, a game of jumping between two twirling ropes, as a varsity sport. The Dutch brought it to NewYork in colonial times, and it has been a competitive ...
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- Reference information from: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary January 1, 1988 700+ words
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 double Dutch a children's game of jump rope in which two turners swing two ropes simultaneously in a crisscross pattern for the person jumping: also double dutch, Double Dutch Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
