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Calories Burned Jumping Rope. Calories burned jumping rope can work out to 15 to 20 calories per minute. The average person could burn 200 to 300 calories in a simple 15 minute jump rope workout. Not just for boxers or kids, rope jumping (skipping) can burn 25% more calories per minute than running.
Cross-Country Skiing Burns More. Burning about 381 calories in 60 minutes of snowboarding provides a slower caloric burn than some other forms of winter exercise. A 160-pound person burns about 533 calories in an hour of slow-paced cross-country skiing and about 419 calories in 60 minutes of light ice skating. The caloric burn from light snowboarding is equivalent to that of light downhill skiing. Related Reading: How to Estimate the Total Calories You Burned While Running.