jumping up and down
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1.8
- idiom
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- After the team scored the winning goal, the crowd was jumping up and down with excitement.
- jumping up and down with excitement
- jumping up and down for joy
- jumping up and down, screaming
Examples
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And Craig and I were jumping up and down saying, "We found him, we found him."
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The children were jumping up and down in anticipation of the surprise party.
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You know, the kids get in and they jump up and down.
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Girls your age would jump up and down for a chance to drive this thing.
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When you have to pee, you jump up and down.
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"Look at me!" said the boy, jumping up and down.
Fiction book (1999) -
"The little girl was practically jumping up and down with excitement.
Fiction book (1994) -
They're just jumping up and down on the bed.
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Jessica, stop jumping up and down, please.
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So smiling, laughing, and the feeling of wanting to jump up and down, these are some of the different ways that psychologists measure joy.
Synonyms
386
1.3
To move quickly away from a surface after hitting it, moving up and down in a springy way
2
1.0
To push yourself off the ground using your legs, often in a sport
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9.6
To move up and down in a quick, jerky way
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'repeatedly jumping in one place' is directly and compositionally built from 'jump' (leap into the air) plus the adverbial phrase 'up and down' indicating vertical, repeated motion, so the overall action is predictable from the parts. This is a common, cross-linguistic way of describing repetitive vertical movement and follows normal English patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Jumping up and down comes from the picture of someone moving their body up and down again and again in one place. Because that repeated movement shows strong feelings, the phrase means 'showing excitement or agitation'.