rocket jump

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Noun

rocket jump (plural rocket jumps)

1. (video games) A jump performed by blasting a rocket launcher in close proximity to one's character.

Coordinate terms

• grenade jump

Verb

rocket jump (third-person singular simple present rocket jumps, present participle rocket jumping, simple past and past participle rocket jumped)

1. (video games) To perform a jump by blasting a rocket launcher in close proximity to one's character.
   • 2003, Doug Radcliffe, Halo - Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies and Secrets:

     Be advised that rocket-jumping is very painful. It's inadvisable to attempt it […]

   • 2004, Alex J Champandard, AI Game Development:

     Ideally, we don't want to test for rocket jumping directly, instead letting the evolution discover rockets as the best approach […]

   • 2008, Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life:

     This technique now arrives almost subliminally for Quake players, but rocket jumping has long been recognized as one of Quake's key skills.

Coordinate terms

• grenade jump

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English rocket jump.

Noun

rocket jump n or c

1. (video games) a rocket jump

Usage notes

Uninflected.

Related terms

• rocketjumpa