Overview of noun jumping

The noun jumping has 2 senses

• jumping -- (the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump)


• jump, jumping -- (the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected")

Overview of verb jump

The verb jump has 15 senses

• jump, leap, bound, spring -- (move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?")


• startle, jump, start -- (move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room")


• jump -- (make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat")


• jump -- (increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped overnight")


• leap out, jump out, jump, stand out, stick out -- (be highly noticeable)


• jump -- (enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game")


• rise, jump, climb up -- (rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list")


• jump, leap, jump off -- (jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre")


• derail, jump -- (run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks")


• chute, parachute, jump -- (jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute)


• jump, leap -- (cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop")


• jumpstart, jump-start, jump -- (start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery)


• jump, pass over, skip, skip over -- (bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible")


• leap, jump -- (pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another")


• alternate, jump -- (go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions)