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Jumping   /dʒˈəmpɪŋ/   Listen
Jumping

noun
1.
The act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump.
2.
The act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground.  Synonym: jump.  "The jumping was unexpected"



Jump

verb
(past & past part. jumped; pres. part. jumping)
1.
Move forward by leaps and bounds.  Synonyms: bound, leap, spring.  "The child leapt across the puddle" , "Can you jump over the fence?"
2.
Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm.  Synonyms: start, startle.
3.
Make a sudden physical attack on.
4.
Increase suddenly and significantly.
5.
Be highly noticeable.  Synonyms: jump out, leap out, stand out, stick out.
6.
Enter eagerly into.
7.
Rise in rank or status.  Synonyms: climb up, rise.
8.
Jump down from an elevated point.  Synonyms: jump off, leap.  "Every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge" , "The widow leapt into the funeral pyre"
9.
Run off or leave the rails.  Synonym: derail.
10.
Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute.  Synonyms: chute, parachute.
11.
Cause to jump or leap.  Synonym: leap.
12.
Start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery.  Synonyms: jump-start, jumpstart.
13.
Bypass.  Synonyms: pass over, skip, skip over.
14.
Pass abruptly from one state or topic to another.  Synonym: leap.  "Jump to a conclusion" , "Jump from one thing to another"
15.
Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions.  Synonym: alternate.



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"Jumping" Quotes from Famous Books



... you are within your Adversaries reach, that you get put of it by stepping or Jumping backwards; which you must observe to do on ...
— The School of Recreation (1696 edition) • Robert Howlett

... than if they were stocks and stones, arouses her ire; sympathy is what she needs, sympathy to help her to face the world and continue her crusade against cruelty. She says all this in a scattered and disconnected style, jumping from one point to another, turning occasionally to her friend for support or confirmation. This friend is a meek, subdued-looking person of uncertain age, somewhat washed-out and bedraggled in appearance. Her attire is nondescript, and seems to consist ...
— A Girl Among the Anarchists • Isabel Meredith

... celebrated their victory by savage pomps and conjurations. They tied the Captain to the ceremonial stake, then, all painted and decorated in their fiercest and most hideous war paint and trappings, they danced their wild dance of triumph. Shouting and jumping, they brandished their war clubs in his face, whirling round and round their captive, like so many demons, each more frightful than the other. But, since they did not kill him at once, Captain John, nothing daunted, kept them wondering, by telling strange stories of the sun, the stars, and the world ...
— The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith • E. Boyd Smith

... jumping up she ran to the mirror and snapped on the light to make a radiant face at ...
— Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge • Pemberton Ginther

... irresistible, and he could only drive before it. In a few minutes, as he was swept along the shore, he was carried between it and another immense reef. Here, the waves being broken and less powerful, he contrived to get the heavy canoe ashore again, and, jumping out, dragged her up as far as he could on the land. When he had done this, he found to his surprise that the gale had ceased. The tremendous burst of wind had been succeeded by a perfect calm, and the waves had already lost their ...
— After London - Wild England • Richard Jefferies


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