jumping

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʒʌmpɪŋ/

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)

Verb

jumping

  1. present participle 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



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.

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