I can jump, skip and hop
"Jump", "skip" and "hop" mean "saltar".
What is the difference among them?
Thank you.
9 Answers
Tal vez no se peuda decirlo mejor que lo que Gekkosan ha puesto, pero hay unos puntos más que puedo hacer con respecto a esta tema.
Jumping es lo más general de los tres. Hopping y skipping son formas de jumping. Hopping me parece, por lo general, un jump sin mucho fuerte...y, con frecuencia, tiene ni objetos ni un norte. (No es así siempre...solo con frecuencia.) Jumping normalmente me hace sentir que hay un propósito en la acción o que hay mucho fuerte en ella.
To hop about...esta frase casi siempre significa que el hopping no tiene ninguna dirección particular.
Skipping es lo más específico de los tres. Es un tipo de jumping. También es un tipo de hopping. Jamas ví "skip" una persona sin que se mueve hacia adelante. Es decir, they always move forward, aunque supongo que sea posible también que pueda moverse hacia atrás (backwards)...pero no es muy común.
Aquí es un video que meustra una niña quien está skipping.
Ya que sabes lo que es skipping, puedo decirte que si viste un niño quien skipped across your lawn, puedes decir algnunas de las frases siguientes:
I saw a kid jumping across my lawn.
I saw a kid hopping across my lawn.
I saw a kid skipping across my lawn.
Todas son correctas, pero, la última frase es la más específica y la más exacta de las tres. Las primeras dos pueden causar que gente imagina unos tipos de jumping o hopping que son diferentes que skipping. A pesar de eso, no es incorrecta usar jumping o hopping cuando hables de skipping. Pero hay muchas veces en las que sí sería incorrecto usar skipping cuando te refieres a las acciones de hopping o jumping.
Con mucha frecuencia hopping y jumping pueden ser usados sin diferencia en sentido. (Examples: He hopped/jumped out of bed. He jumped/hopped up to reach the highest shelf.) Pero, si deseamos mostrar que el jump tiene mucho fuerte, no podemos usar hop. Debemos usar jump o leap en tales caso. (He jumped / leapt with all of his strength and managed to make it across the divide.) Por otra parte, si no hay mucho fuerte, podemos usar algnas de las palabras (He easily hopped / jumped / leapt across the small creek.) No tiene sentido decir algo como "hopped with all his strength" porque hopped indica que solo un poco de su fuerte se usa en la acción.
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Aquí es un video que muestra "jumping / skipping rope" (no hay diferencia entre jumping rope y skipping rope...son iguales en sentido).
Aquí es un video que meustra como to skip stones/rocks.
Skipping por general (si hablando de una person que salta o no) se refiere a la acción de salir un pococito de y caer otra vez a alguna superficie varias veces seguidas. También puede referirse a saltar sobre un objeto o a omitir a alguien o algo de algo.
Si una grabación (tape, DVD, video, record, o lo que sea) "skips in some places", quiere decir que hay lugares en la grabación que no se reproducen correctamente.
Hay una frase común: "He was just hopping and skipping along through life." (Significa que iba o sin preocupaciones o sin ambiciones o sin las dos. Con frecuencia, es una introducción a un event mal y inesperado: "He was just hopping and skipping along through life when, suddenly, he lost his job, and now his wife has left him, and he is about to lose his house.")
Hopping is jumping using one leg: you launch up using one leg and land on the same leg.
In skipping, you launch using one leg and land on the other, often many times in a row so that it looks vaguely like jerky running.
Jumping usually involves using both legs for launching up and for landing, although it is not as specific as the other two. Leap can also be used to mean jump.
Edit:
After reading the comments, I thought I should add a little more:
When some people skip, they launch forwards with one leg, land on the same leg, then quickly bring down the other foot and launch forwards with the other leg.
If you are going back and forth from one leg to the other it is normally called jumping.
In the sporting event "hop, skip, and jump" the final jump is launched from one leg and the landing involves both.
Ademas, la expresión, "A hop, skip and a jump" quiere decir una distancia muy corta.
"Are we close to the museum?"
"Oh yes, it's just a hop, skip and a jump from here."
Leyendo la excelente explicación de Lorenzo, se me ocurre:
Jump: saltar
Hop: brincar, dar saltitos
Skip: hacer cabriolas
I agree mostly with what others have said. I just have a couple of comments:
Hopping does not necessarily that you jump on one leg only. To me hopping usually implies short, quick bursts which are often repeated. I think that the main characteristic of "hop" is the idea of a quick bouncing motion, the key word here being "quick." For example, you can "hop off the counter" or "hop off your bike." Also, the type of locomotion characteristic of rabbits is often referred to as "hopping," and this action involves more than one leg. Not to mention the fact that we have the term "bunny hop" which generally implies that you would jump up and down on two legs in the manner of rabbits. Based on certain expressions, it seems to me that the default characteristic for hopping is actually two legs. For example, in the children's game 'Simon Says' a common command is, "Hop up and down on one leg," a statement which requires the specifier "on one leg" if the statement is to be interpreted unambiguously. Likewise, in the expression mentioned above by Nicole, she says, "He hopped over the chair on his good leg," a statement which again carries the qualifying statement "on his good leg." I think that it would be just as possible to say, "He hopped over the chair" to imply a quick two legged burst which propelled him over the chair (i.e. jumping in the manner of a rabbit or quickly bounding over the chair).
As far as skipping is concerned, I agree with the descriptions given thus far and just wanted to add that the expression "skipping" comes from the fact that it is a form of movement in which you pick one leg up so that you can hop forward on the other leg thereby "skipping" the step you would have completed had you placed the first leg down. This process is then repeated with the other leg so that as you move forward in this manner you do so by "skipping steps." There are also certain expressions where "skip" is simply synonymous with "jump." "Skipping/jumping rope" is one that comes to mind. Although the expression "skipping rope" was originally used to describe a particular manner of jumping rope which resembled the act of skipping in place, I think that most people do not often differentiate between the two terms now.
Since we are trying to be encyclopedic here, I should add that "hopping" is also used to describe the adding of hops to the wort prior to fermentation when making beer. Personally, I consider this to be the most important usage of the word, even if it is not the most common.
Lorenzo's answer was very good. I will try to give some additional descriptions so you can visualize this.
Think of it this way:
You jump into a pool.
You hop over to a chair on your good leg when you can't reach your crutches.
The little girl next door loves to skip down the street to her friend's house.( In general, you are more likely to see girls skipping than boys.)
Here is a good example of skipping and galloping as it applies to people:
The video below shows a series of exercises designed to improve one's jumping abilities.
Early on in the video the athletes are jumping up onto crates to build explosive leg strength. We could also reasonably describe this activity as "hopping," as in "hop up onto the crate," or "he hopped up onto the crate."
Towards the middle of the tape, an obstacle is added to the workout that the athletes must jump over before jumping onto the crate. Again, we could probably use "hop" and "jump" interchangeably here. Towards the end of the video (around 2:30), one of the athletes is seen perform certain performing various exercises while carrying a basketball. I think that in the very first exercise of this series, these movements could probably be described as "skipping back and forth" or "skipping from side to side."
At the very end of the video, we see one of the athletes jumping onto a stack of three boxes. Although, I suppose it would probably be possible to say that he "hopped up onto the top of those boxes," I think that I (and this may just be me) would probably be more likely to describe this action as jumping. I'm not sure why. It might be that the term "hopping" (at least to me) does not encompass or is not able to imply as strongly the idea of jumping with maximal effort as is seen in the video (or possibly because I often think of hopping as a movement in which the legs remain relatively unbent).
The next video gives a good example of what I meant in regards to "skipping" rope. Once the boxer actually starts jumping the rope, notice that he does a double hop on one foot and then a double hop on the other foot. This sort of movement, because of its resemblance to skipping, is where the origin of the term "skipping rope" comes from. As I said earlier, "skipping" and "jumping" rope are used fairly synonymously. You may notice that skipping also implies a somewhat dexterous movement, one which requires the person to perform it in a fairly "light-footed" manner.
This last video below shows another example of jumping rope. Notice that the first exercise that is done is referred to in the video as a "one hop (basic)," and the form of jumping that the trainer is doing could certainly be considered "hopping." On the other hand, if you rewind to the very beginning of the video and notice the man off in the background near the football/soccer goal, you will see him performing a series of exercises that I would probably describe only as "jumping." Again, possibly because of the degree to which he bends his knees in order to perform this movement or perhaps because he is not jumping up onto anything, I probably would not refer to this particular motion as "hopping." The second exercise, the "right to left," is another example "skipping" rope. The third exercise in the series ("1 foot at a time") is a good example of "hopping up and down on one leg." The very last exercise he does, he calls a "double hop" because as he "hops/jumps" up into the air, the rope passes under his feet two times before he lands.
To sum up all the excellent answers:
A little girl skips.
A rabbit hops.
An athlethe jumps.
