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base jump

base jump is the alternative letter-case form of BASE jump.

Noun capitalized: BASE jump

BASE jump (plural BASE jumps)

  1. A parachute jump from a fixed point rather than from an aircraft; typically from a tall building, high bridge or rock formation.

Verb capitalized: BASE jump

BASE jump (third-person singular simple present BASE jumps, present participle BASE jumping, simple past and past participle BASE jumped)

  1. (intransitive) To make such a jump.
    • Adventurer Johnny Strange, who grew up in Malibu, was killed Thursday when he crashed while wingsuit BASE jumping in the Swiss Alps. […] After Potter died, Strange wrote, “You were one of my favorite BASE jumpers and getting to fly Wingsuits with you off Via F the next year made me beyond proud to...2015 October 2, Veronica Rocha, “BASE jumper Johnny Strange dies in wingsuit jump in Swiss Alps”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2016

Forms of base jump

Noun
pluralbase jumps
pluralBASE jumps
alternative formbase jump
Verb
third-person singular presentbase jumps
present participlebase jumping
past participlebase jumped
pastbase jumped
third-person singular presentBASE jumps
present participleBASE jumping
past participleBASE jumped
pastBASE jumped

Origin of base jump

From BASE (“building, antenna-tower, span, earth”) + jump.

Words formed from base jump

Questions about base jump

What does base jump mean?
Base jump means a parachute jump from a fixed point rather than from an aircraft; typically from a tall building, high bridge or rock formation.
What is base jump the alternative letter-case form of?
Base jump is the alternative letter-case form of BASE jump.
What part of speech is base jump?
Base jump can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of base jump?
The plural of base jump is base jumps.

Words near base jump in the dictionary

  1. base hit
  2. base hits
  3. base hospital
  4. base hospitals
  5. base isolation
  6. base jump
  7. base jumped
  8. BASE jumper
  9. BASE jumpers
  10. base jumping
  11. base jumps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: base jump (page history and authors); BASE jump (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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