In Japanese, "jump rope" is 縄跳び (nawatobi). It is a noun pronounced "nah-wah-toh-bee".
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縄跳び is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as nawatobi, it sounds roughly like "nah-wah-toh-bee" to an English ear.
その縄跳びはとても便利です。
Sono Nawatobi wa totemo benri desu.
That jump rope is very useful.
Nawatobi (縄跳び) is the Japanese word for jump rope. This noun appears in everyday contexts across homes, offices, schools, and public spaces.
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縄跳び is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.
縄跳び is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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