hopping

Speech parts

1. hopping - Noun

2. hopping - Adjective

3. hopping - Verb

Derived from hop

5. Hopping - Proper noun

Meaning

of Hop

The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.

A gathering of hops.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

redwood working active vaulting leaper froggy travel employed spring engaged bound occupied journey jump animated
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Antonyms

cool as cucumber slack dead flat quiet depressed
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Phrases with the word

hopping mouse hedge-hopping bar hopping variable range hopping conduction dialect hopping hopping on

Examples

An extension of Planck's ideas, due to Prof. Niels Bohr of Copenhagen, went on to suggest that... the ultimate particles of matter would be seen to move not like railway trains running smoothly on tracks, but like kangaroos hopping about in a field. James Jeans

They were neither good nor evil now - every living thing was simply creeping or hopping along in the mass panic. Wisława Szymborska

I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them. Emo Philips

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. John Gunther

Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being "phony." True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats. Ann Coulter

The magpie cannot leave her hopping. Dutch Proverb

Close letter words and terms

hoppestere hoppet hoppiness hopping conduction hopping Dick hopping mad