jumping
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
jumping (comparative more jumping, superlative most jumping)
- (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)
- 1998, Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out?
Verb[edit]
jumping
- present participle and gerund of jump
Noun[edit]
jumping (plural jumpings)
- 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.
- 1871, John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (page 291)
Further reading[edit]
jumping on Wikiversity.Wikiversity
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
jumping m (plural jumpings)
- show jumping (equestrian discipline)
- (sports and physical fitness) a form of movement in which a body propels itself through the air
Further reading[edit]
- “jumping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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