hopscotch

Etymology

hop + scotch (“scratch”)

noun

1. (playground games) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.

verb

1. (intransitive, figurative) To move by hopping.
   As he hopscotched around the world on his Gulfstream IV — he got rid of his homes but kept his private plane — he found himself spending more and more time in Los Angeles, and he also rediscovered his interest in politics and philosophy. 2022-04-06, Michael Steinberger, “How the ‘Homeless Billionaire’ Became a Philosopher King”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
2. (intransitive, figurative) To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by hopping.