Yep we had playgrounds behind the schools in Virginia and jumping and skipping rope used interchangeably. We used out of bounds too, off limits came later.

What I want to know is which came first

Storm in a teacup

or

Tempest in a teapot

for some reason, maybe my imagination, I though Tempest in a Teapot had to do with a politcal cartoon about the Boston Tea Party.   If so, then I would think that it was a colonist's way of co-opting and English saying, clevering it up and putting an American spin on it.