bouncing
/ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/
bouncing adjective: healthy; vigorous. Also the present participle and gerund of bounce.
Adjective
bouncing
- Healthy; vigorous.
- a bouncing baby girl
- By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty.1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
- Excessively big; whopping.
- a bouncing reckoning1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act...
Noun
bouncing (plural bouncings)
- The act of something that bounces.
- […] this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those bouncings.1997, Daniel Price, Without a Woman to Read: Toward the Daughter in Postmodernism
Also used as
bouncing is also the present participle and gerund of bounce.
bouncing meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
bouncing in Tamil
- பவுன்சிங், துள்ளல், துள்ளுவது
bouncing in Marathi
- उसळी मारणे
bouncing in Bengali
- বাউন্সিং
bouncing in Telugu
- బౌన్సింగ్
More languagesFewer languages
- bouncing in Malayalam
- ബൌൺസ് ചെയ്യുന്നു
- bouncing in Kannada
- ಬೌನ್ಸ್ ಆಗುತ್ತಿದೆ, ಬೌನ್ಸಿಂಗ್, ಪುಟಿಯುತ್ತಿದೆ
- bouncing in Odia
- ବାଉନ୍ସିଂ
- bouncing in Nepali
- बाउन्सिङ, बाउन्स गर्दै
Examples of bouncing in a sentence
- There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
- These kids need to get outside for recess. They're bouncing off the walls in here.
- The children were bouncing a ball against a wall.
Forms of bouncing
| plural | bouncings |
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Words formed from bouncing
Phrases with bouncing
- bouncing in
- bouncing Bet
- bouncing off
- pec bouncing
- bouncing back
- bouncing Bets
- bouncing into
- bouncing bombs
- bouncing around
- bouncing castle
- bouncing rubble
- bouncing Betties
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with bouncing
Questions about bouncing
- What does bouncing mean?
- Bouncing means healthy; vigorous.
- What is bouncing in Tamil?
- Bouncing in Tamil is பவுன்சிங், துள்ளல், துள்ளுவது. See Bouncing meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is bouncing?
- Bouncing can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce bouncing?
- Bouncing is pronounced /ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/.
Words near bouncing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bouncing (page history and authors); bouncing (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bouncing (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bouncing (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bouncing (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bouncing (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bouncing (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bouncing (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bouncing (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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