BALTIMORE -- Howard County, Maryland-based precision jump rope team Kangaroo Kids has been competing and performing for 45 years, from local elementary schools to University of Maryland halftime shows ...

The 2025 World Jump Rope Championships are underway, with the fastest rope-skippers and Double Dutch masters converging in Kawasaki, Japan. The World Championships, which will be administered by the ...

Experts say jumping rope is more effective cardio than running, so I tried it for a month. Here’s how it went - As a ...

At the Paris Games, the new sport of breaking debuted. It’s one of several non-traditional sports that have shown up at recent Olympics. Advocates of jump rope say their sport should be added too.

Sioux Falls will be host to the American Jump Rope Federation’s National Championship event next year. Members of the federation (AMJRF) recently announced that Augustana University will welcome more ...

Zach Peckman, a 16-year-old jump rope champion from New Hope, was introduced to the sport in kindergarten during the Jump Rope for Heart fitness program. But after seeing a gymnastics-style jumping ...

The Tucson Twist-Its are teaming with USA Jump Rope to host a first-ever, all-star jump-rope workshop. The workshop, open to all ages, will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The private lessons, from ...

As one of the least expensive and most accessible fitness options available, jump ropes sales continue to skyrocket. Hitting a global market size of a staggering 1.9 billion in 2021, year-over-year ...

Jumping rope is the devil’s exercise. Or so went my initial thoughts. Hopping up and down, stuck in place, while swinging a plastic whip haphazardly about your head and ankles, not only filled me with ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While fancy Pilates machines and indoor rowing machines are now popular staples on living room floors, we ...