jumping

jumping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɪŋ/

Adjective

jumping (comparative more jumping, superlative most jumping)

1. (colloquial) Exuberantly active; in full swing.
   • 1998, Baha Men - 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)

Derived terms

• jumping jack
• jumping Jehoshaphat
• jumping Jesus
• jumping mouse
• jumping plant louse
• jumping spider

 

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.

Further reading

• jumping on Wikiversity.Wikiversity

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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.