
Mario Party 8: The minigame Chump Rope has a lone player try to trip up the other three in a jump rope. When only one or both players from a pair remains, that pair wins but if all remaining players are hit at the same time, then the minigame ends in a tie. Mario Party 7: The minigame Grin and Bar It has 8 players play rope-jumping with a strangely-bent metal bar, thus requiring each player to time the exact time to jump and avoid being hit, since the curvy shape of the bar makes it so no two players can jump at the same time without either or both potentially losing the bar will also spin faster as time passes. The first team to lose both players will lose, rendering the other the winner. The turnstile will gradually increase its speed as it turns, making it increasingly difficult to time the jumps. The objective is to jump to avoid bring hit by the turnstile, and the players must also avoid falling onto the surrounding lava. Mario Party 6: The minigame Burnstile has two teams of characters standing respectively on two solid platforms (one red and one blue) while a spiky turnstile spins. Each succesful jump yields one point, while being hit by the bar will stun the jumping character, wasting precious time. Mario Party 5: In the minigame Handy Hoppers, one character in a pair will spin a lever to move a bar that has to be jumped over by the other character. Players who get hit bounce away in reaction to the burn. Mario Party: Hot Rope Jump from this game, 2, and Superstars has players jump over a flaming jump rope. In the Sesame Street song "The Ladybugs' Picnic", the twelve ladybugs try to play jumprope, but the rope breaks. The camera then zooms out to show Hawkeye and BJ are the ones twirling the rope for him, as Mulcahy says this is the only way he knows how do it. On an episode of M*A*S*H, Father Mulcahy was jumping rope as part of training for a race against a runner from another camp. A bit later, when the rope has become extra-long, Grandmama bumps into the man behind her, causing everyone else (including the ones holding the rope) to collapse.
Lady comes along and tries to jump with the man in the middle, but since the rope isn't long enough for both of them, Mrs. Boohbah: In "Skipping Rope", three people are using a jump rope.She wonders if she's too young for this until Barney and the kids convince her that she'll improve with practice. Barney & Friends: In "You Can Do It!", Baby Bop attempts skipping rope for the first time, but she keeps hitting her legs with the rope and not jumping over it in time.But due to Potato's short stature and clumsiness, he repeatedly gets the rope hitting his face instead. One Old Master Q strip had the comic's resident Fat Comic Relief, Big Potato, intending to exercise by jumping rope a hundred times, with his friend Chin do the counting for him.Nakanojou jumps competently, but the rope keeps hitting his all-natural mohawk.
However, she touches the rope the instant she runs in, and she just starts frantically jumping with her eyes closed while the rope isn't even going. One more episode has the teacher Izumi Sakurai attempt to jumprope.Mai jumps perfectly, while reading a book.Then they accidentally hit her with the rope. In another, Yukko tries to do a flip, only to fall right on her face.In one episode, Mio runs up to to the holders and jumps up, but gets the timing wrong and bumps her head on the rope.Nichijou has a running gag with two extras holding a jumprope and various main characters attempting to jump :.However, she took first place in the backward-skip category at 203, with a certificate for proof. A sad Rin admits that she only got to fifteen forward skips.
Later, Daikichi asks her how the contest went. Bunny Drop: Rin participates in a jump rope contest at her school, not long after learning how from Daikichi.