jumping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ

Adjective

jumping (comparative more jumping, superlative most jumping)

1. (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

jumping

1. present participle and gerund of jump

Noun

jumping (plural jumpings)

1. 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

terms derived from all parts of speech

• Asian jumping worm
• bail jumping
• barfly jumping
• barrel jumping
• base jumping
• BASE jumping
• B.A.S.E. jumping
• bungee jumping
• bungy jumping
• claim-jumping
• dirt jumping
• gun jumping
• jumping bean
• jumping cactus
• 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

 

French

Etymology

From English jumping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒœ̃.piŋ/

Noun

jumping m (plural jumpings)

1. show jumping (equestrian discipline)
2. (sports and physical fitness) a form of movement in which a body propels itself through the air

Further reading

• “jumping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.