Jack slep Jun 9, 2011:

Stone skipping (in support of Michael)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 ......

Rachel Douglas Jun 9, 2011:

Ducks & Drakes The last couple of paragraphs of the article for which I gave the link (below) tells the origin of that game from around the 1580s, during fighting between the English and the Spanish Armada.

kamilw Jun 9, 2011:

I've heard the name 'ducks and drakes'.

Oleksiy Markunin Jun 9, 2011:

Plinks do sound awesome =)

Rachel Douglas Jun 9, 2011:

Close! It says here that champion stone skippers call the hops or landings of the stones "plinks" and "pitty-pats."
http://www.brianhayes.com/interesting/world-record-for-skipp...

Michael Tovbin Jun 9, 2011:

How's about blintzes :)) ?