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jump'n'run

jump'n'run noun: a platform game that involves jumping over obstacles.

Noun

jump'n'run (plural jump'n'runs)

  1. A platform game that involves jumping over obstacles.
    • The scene of jumping on an invisible bridge is then to be seen as a discourse fragment that builds a discourse strand together with other elements (e.g., in the context of other jump'n'runs) that lead into a shared discourse that itself can be integrated into an elementary discourse or a...2014, Jason Thompson, The Game Culture Reader, page 69
    • The ideal example to illustrate the technique of Mickey-Mousing would, of course, be Warren Spector's Epic Mickey (2010), a jump'n'run game for the Nintendo Wii console in which the namesake of this scoring concept has to travel through wastelands and cartoon universes and meet inhabitants like...2012, Peter Moormann, Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance, page 98

Forms of jump'n'run

pluraljump'n'runs
alternative formjump and run

Questions about jump'n'run

What does jump'n'run mean?
Jump'n'run means a platform game that involves jumping over obstacles.
What part of speech is jump'n'run?
Jump'n'run is a noun.
What is the plural of jump'n'run?
The plural of jump'n'run is jump'n'runs.

Words near jump'n'run in the dictionary

  1. jump up
  2. jump up behind
  3. jump upon
  4. jump wire
  5. jump wires
  6. jump'n'run
  7. jump'n'runs
  8. jump-cut
  9. jump-cuts
  10. jump-cutting
  11. jump-off

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