to jump
- verb
- /dʒʌmp/
- Libelant, fearing bodily harm, jumped out of the window and landed some eight feet below on the ground.
Examples
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BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects.
Academic text (2006) -
Other times, he has to jump from the chopper, careful not to get sucked into its blades.
Academic text (2011) -
Did you know there are people who jump out of airplanes?
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The spectators courageously jump into the water to rescue victims one at a time.
Academic text (2005) -
Trying to escape, two colobus monkeys jumped into smaller trees lower in the canopy.
Academic text (1991) -
We just intercepted an emergency call from an Airbus out of Mexico saying a man jumped off the plane over Sequoia.
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Without hesitating, Michelle threw on her life jacket, jumped overboard, and swam as fast as she could toward Lexi.
Academic text (2011) -
The thrill of skydiving is heightened when you jump from the plane at 10,000 feet.
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Before his parachute jump, he checked all the equipment carefully to ensure a safe descent.
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She decided to jump out of the aircraft to experience the rush of freefalling through the sky.
Synonyms
To jump quickly from one place to another or make something jump
To jump from a plane and slow your fall by opening a cloth that fills with air
To jump from a plane and move in the air before opening a parachute
To jump from an airplane and do tricks before opening a parachute
To jump from a plane and fall slowly using a parachute
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To start doing something popular because many others do it, often to get an advantage
- Informal
To suddenly speak angrily and criticize someone for a small mistake
- Slang
To start to get worse after a silly or big change, for example in a TV show
- Informal
Start a difficult task without much preparation or experience
- Offensive
A rude joking way to tell someone to go away without meaning it
- Informal
To join a business or project that is likely to fail even though there are clear risks
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
Decide quickly about someone or something without enough information
To start a car engine that has a dead battery using another car's battery and cables
Compounds
An athletic event where athletes jump over a horizontal bar without knocking it down
- Specialized
A basketball way where the referee tosses the ball between two players who jump to tap it to a teammate
An act of starting a car with a dead battery using another car's battery and cables
- Specialized
A sudden change between two film shots that makes action or time seem to skip
A track event where an athlete does a hop, a step, then a long jump in one run
- Jargon
A machine in science fiction that lets ships travel instantly between distant stars
- Specialized
A sudden cut between shots in a film that shows time passing or makes the action jump
- Specialized
A sudden change in an electron's energy level when it gains or loses energy
- Specialized
A jump with arms and legs stretched out to the sides like an eagle
How Risky
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jump meaning to leap from a plane uses the same simple idea of 'leaving the ground' or making a big leap, so jumping from an aircraft is literally making a very large leap into the air.