🔊 A bouncing sound 🏀 A springy movement 🏀 To bounce 💥 A springy exclamation

boing

1 8.8

A quick bouncing movement like a ball jumping high

noun
/bɔɪŋ/

Informal

: rebote

[BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING]

Examples

boing boing boing

California Girls (1983)
boing boing boing

California Girls (1983)
-Boing!

Ramona and Beezus (2010)
[BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING]

Bad Girls from Mars (1990)
[BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING]

Bad Girls from Mars (1990)
The rubber ball made a loud boing when it hit the ground and bounced back up.
After the trampoline session, the children kept saying boing every time they jumped.
With a sudden boing, the cat leaped from the couch to the window sill.

Synonyms

bounce

vsboing

56 2.2

A light springy movement or a lively feeling in a person

is a sudden fast springing movement that is quick and energetic

bouncing

vsboing

18 1.6

Movement of an object hitting a surface and coming back up

is a sudden fast springing movement that happens once not repeatedly

How Energetic

leap

107 1.0

to bounce

386 1.3

boing

Informal

1 8.8

spring

18 1.3

shift

363 3.5

Surface Forms

boing singular

boings plural

Etymology

Boing comes from the imitated sound of a spring, and it is used for the lively jump or rebound itself — the sudden 'boing' movement you see when a ball shoots off a trampoline. That's why we call a quick, energetic bounce a boing.