jumping
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
jumping (comparative more jumping, superlative most jumping)
- (colloquial) Exuberantly active; in full swing.
- 1998, Baha Men (lyrics and music), “Who Let the Dogs Out?”:
- When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)
And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)
Verb edit
jumping
- present participle and gerund of jump
Noun edit
jumping (plural jumpings)
- The act of performing a jump.
- 1871, John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion, page 291:
- When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once.
Derived terms edit
terms derived from all parts of speech
- Asian jumping worm
- B.A.S.E. jumping
- bail jumping
- barfly jumping
- barrel jumping
- base jumping
- BASE jumping
- bungee jumping
- bungy jumping
- claim-jumping
- dirt jumping
- gun jumping
- jumping bean
- jumping castle
- jumping cholla
- jumping disease
- jumping Frenchmen of Maine syndrome
- jumping gene
- jumping jack
- jumping-jack
- jumping jack
- jumping Jehoshaphat
- jumping Jehoshaphat
- jumping Jesus
- jumping Jesus
- jumping mouse
- jumping mouse
- jumping-off place
- jumping-off point
- jumping plant louse
- jumping plant louse
- jumping salad
- jumping shrew
- jumping spider
- jumping spider
- jumping worm
- kite jumping
- meadow jumping mouse
- Mexican jumping bean
- peacock jumping spider
- rap jumping
- rattler-jumping
- shark-jumping
- ski jumping
- waka-jumping
Further reading edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
jumping m (plural jumpings)
- show jumping (equestrian discipline)
- (sports and physical fitness) a form of movement in which a body propels itself through the air
Further reading edit
- “jumping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.