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Jumping rope, once a children’s game confined to playgrounds and sidewalks, has become fashionable.
Nonsense rhymes of childhood have been replaced by wheezing gasps of exertion as Americans work to bring down their weight and build up their stamina by skipping rope, the National Geographic Society says.
Until the current physical fitness campaign, virtually the only adults with jump ropes were prizefighters, for whom the exercise is as traditional as a cauliflower ear.
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