jumping

comparative more jumping · superlative most jumping

1. colloquialExuberantly 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?”

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of jump

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