Other forms: hoops
A hoop is a large ring of wood or metal. A barrel hoop, roll the hoop, basketball hoop.
Barrels are held together by them alone — no glue and no nails, just the pressure of the hoops on the shaped staves. Hula hoops sold in tens of millions in 1958. Jumping through hoops means satisfying pointless requirements.
1nounhoopA large ring of wood or metal.
“The children rolled wooden hoops down the street with sticks.”
hoop is a ring.
Old English hop means a circular object, from a Germanic root meaning a bend or arch.
Proto-Indo-European
*kāb- — to bend
Proto-Germanic
*hōpą — bend, bow, arch
Old English
hōp — mound, raised land; in combination, circular object
Middle English
hoop
English, today
hoop
From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic hōpą (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare stq Houp (“hoop”), Dutch hoep (“hoop”), Old Norse hóp (“bay, inlet”)), from Proto-Indo-European kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), cu кѫпъ (“hill, island”)). More at camp.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA