long jump
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- noun
- /lɔŋ dʒʌmp/
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salto de longitud
- In the Olympic Games, athletes will compete in the long jump to see who can leap the farthest from a running start.
- gains in the long jump
- long jump performance improved
We have a high jump and we have a long jump.
- We have a high jump and we have a long jump.
- A lot of interesting things happened there, not the least of which was Bob Beeman breaking the long jump world record by more than a foot.
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Competition in the pentathlon long jump has been delayed.
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The standing long jump (cm) was used to assess muscular power.
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Well, I watched your long jump today.
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I watched your long jump today.
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And on top of that, right around that time she was running track, the 400, 800, and long jump.
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There are several running events, high jump, long jump, javelin and shot put.
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Then came right back with another PR in the long jump of 21.8.
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Though she finished in fifth place in Beijing, now she dominates the long jump.
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Oregon's Bob Lidell is on the long jump runway.
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Elliott played football, basketball, and participated in the long jump, triple jump, and high jump at Colonial High School.
Blog text (10)
Synonyms
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A track event where a person runs and jumps to land as far away as possible
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an athletic event in which competitors jump as far as possible' is directly and transparently derived from 'long' (indicating great length/distance) modifying 'jump' (an act of springing), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a jump for distance. This adjective+noun composition is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern and thus readily comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The name long jump comes from the simple picture of a person running and making a jump to go as long a distance as possible, so it now means the event where people 'jump as far as they can'.