Asakiyume mita

"I think I do," I said. "We had a game we used to play with a large loop of elasticized cord. Two people would stand inside the loop, about three or four feet apart so the loop was pulled taut at their ankles, making a little elastic rectangle. Then a third person would stand in between them and do a jumping pattern, landing inside, outside, and on the elastic. We called it 'Chinese jump-rope.'"

I know this game, but I don't think it was called Chinese anything! I saw it in elementary school. It is familiar enough that I may have played it, although if so not often: I know I also read about it. That's so interesting.