 300 or 400 years ago children played skipping with hoops. About 100 years ago boys and girls both skipped, but then 50 years ago it was mainly girls that skipped. Today lots of girls skip and a few boys skip as well. We sometimes like to skip to rhymes like Cinderella dressed in gala went upstairs to kiss her fella By mistake she kissed a snake, now she's got a belly ache. Nowadays we don't play friend skipping but our mums did. They skip with elastic around their ankles and then they did knees with elastic around their knees.