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jumping

/ˈd͡ʒʌm.pɪŋ/

jumping adjective: exuberantly active; in full swing. Also the present participle and gerund of jump.

Adjective

jumping (comparative more jumping, superlative most jumping)

  1. (colloquial) Exuberantly active; in full swing.
    • When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)
      And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)1998, Baha Men, “Who Let the Dogs Out?”

Noun

jumping (plural jumpings)

  1. The act of performing a jump.
    • When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once.1871, John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion, page 291

Also used as

jumping is also the present participle and gerund of jump.

jumping meaning in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

jumping in Hindi

कूदते हुए

jumping in Telugu

జంపింగ్

jumping in Malayalam

ചാടിക്കയറുന്നു

jumping in Kannada

ಜಿಗಿಯುವುದು
More languagesFewer languages
jumping in Nepali
जम्पिङ

Forms of jumping

Adjective
comparativemore jumping
superlativemost jumping
Noun
pluraljumpings

Words formed from jumping

Phrases with jumping

65 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with jumping

Questions about jumping

What does jumping mean?
Jumping means exuberantly active; in full swing.
What is jumping in Hindi?
Jumping in Hindi is कूदते हुए. See Jumping meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is jumping?
Jumping can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce jumping?
Jumping is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʌm.pɪŋ/.

Words near jumping in the dictionary

  1. jumpiest
  2. jumpily
  3. jumpin'
  4. jumpiness
  5. jumpinesses
  6. jumping
  7. jumping a claim
  8. jumping about
  9. jumping all over
  10. jumping and dumping
  11. jumping around

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jumping (page history and authors); jumping (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumping (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumping (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumping (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumping (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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