channel hopping



channel hopping

and channel surfing and channel zapping
n. using a remote control to move quickly from one television channel to another, pausing only a short time on each channel. I wish you would stop channel hopping! He spends more time channel zapping than actually watching.
See also: channel, hop

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
HjalmarYAHL-mahr (Swedish)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Jamila-Arabic
MiekeMEE-kəDutch
Ali (1)‘ah-LEE: (Arabic)Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Indonesian, Malay
Anshel-Yiddish
SnjeŽAna-Croatian, Serbian