History of Skipping
There are no exact defined records of this sport but in ancient Greece it was documented that two people were holding a pole and a another person was jumping over it. Just like how skipping is played with three today, but instead with rope. It might have developed from this idea during when in ancient China and Egypt rope was developing. The rope developers needed to jump over the ropes to gather the strands of hemp, by this idea the children imitated the technique and created a game out of it.