Jump rope, skipping rope, or skip rope it is a game of skipping or passing the rope by jumping while the rope swung and it passes under their feet and over their heads, and it is mostly played by the children and some young adults. The game can be played by: one participant turning the rope and jump on it; or a minimum of three participants, the two will turn the rope and one or more jumps. Double Dutch is an activity which is played with two turning ropes and is significantly more difficult. Jump-rope rhymes are often chanted beginning when the skipper jumps in and ending when the skipper is tripped up.

Jump rope is a great exercise and works your whole body, though many of us see jump rope as simple, fun games and others consider it as a sport. Jumping rope takes huge strength, stamina, focus, and can be more than a schoolyard game. It improves the training skills of an athletic: speed, agility power, endurance, timing, coordination, balance rhythm and grace. The turning of rope is an effective way that moves the upper body muscles of the chest, back, shoulders, biceps, forearms and triceps. Jump rope also is an excellent aerobic and anaerobic training workout; it doesn't lead to knee damage since the impact of jumping is absorbed by both legs.

Jump rope is also practiced by young kids and adults at a competitive level. Individual athletes and teams compete in events like single ropes or Double-Dutch. In freestyle routines, during the competition the jumpers have a set of time limit to perform different combination of skills wherein these are choreographed to music. During speed events, the athletes try to complete many jumps as possible within the given amount of time. The FISAC-IRSF World Jump Rope Championship is being held in July every other year. 

The main jump rope organization is USA Jump Rope, it composed of hundreds of jump roping teams and hundreds of jumpers from all over the country. Every June, the USA Jump Rope sponsors various regional competitions and a national competition at Walt Disney World's Wide World of sports complex in Orlando, Florida which is broadcast byESPN annually. Traditionally, there were two competing jump rope organizations in the United States: the International Rope Skipping Organization (IRSO) which focused on stunt-oriented and gymnastic type jump rope moves while theWorld Rope Skipping Federation (WRSF) appreciated the aesthetics and form of jump roping.