13:33 Jun 9, 2011
Stone skipping (in support of Michael)
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Stone skipping is a pastime which involves throwing a stone with a flattened surface across a lake or other body of water in such a way that it bounces off the surface of the water. The object of the game is to see how many times a stone can be made to bounce before sinking.
In North America it is also referred to as "skipping rocks". In Italian is called rimbalzello, in Russian this game is called "baking pancakes" (pech blini), in Ukrainian, it is called "letting the frogs out" (zapuskaty zhabky), in Polish, "letting the ducks out" (puszczanie kaczek). In Hungarian it is called "making it to waddle" (kacsáztatás). In Spanish it is called "making white-caps" or "frogging(?)" (hacer cabrillas or hacer sapito), among other names, in Catalan, "making step-stone ...... |