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high jump

high jump noun: an athletics event where a competitor must jump over a bar placed gradually higher and higher.

Noun

high jump (uncountable)

  1. An athletics event where a competitor must jump over a bar placed gradually higher and higher.

high jump meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati and Tagalog

high jump in Tamil

உயரந்தாண்டுதல்

high jump in Kannada

ಎತ್ತರ ನೆಗೆತ, ಎತ್ತರ ಜಿಗಿತ

high jump in Gujarati

athletics event
ઊંચીકૂદ ū̃cīkūd

high jump in Tagalog

athletics event
mataas na paglundag
More languagesFewer languages
high jump in Malay
lompat tinggi
high jump in Indonesian
lompat tinggi
high jump in Vietnamese
nhảy cao

Forms of high jump

alternative formhigh-jump

Origin of high jump

From high + jump.

Words formed from high jump

Questions about high jump

What does high jump mean?
High jump means an athletics event where a competitor must jump over a bar placed gradually higher and higher.
What is high jump in Tamil?
High jump in Tamil is உயரந்தாண்டுதல். See High jump meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is high jump?
High jump is a noun.

Words near high jump in the dictionary

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  4. high juice
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  8. high jumpers
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Adapted from Wiktionary: high jump (page history and authors); high jump (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); high jump (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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