(uncountable) (also jump-roping, jumping rope) The activity, game or exercise in which a person must jump, bounce or skip repeatedly while a length of rope is swung over and under, both ends held in the hands of the jumper, or alternately, held by two other participants. Often used for athletic training and among schoolchildren. Variations involve speed, chants, varied rope and jumper movement patterns, multiple jumpers and/or multiple ropes.

(idiomatic) To repeatedly jump over a rope, the ends of which are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is swung under the feet and over the head of the jumper; to play the game of jump rope; to exercise by jumping rope.

A Mexican jumping bean.

plural of jump rope

(colloquial) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jump rope

A form of exercise where one touches one's toes, then jumps up.

(idiomatic) To make conclusions before being presented with all the evidence.

Alternative spelling of high jump

(skateboarding) A trick in which the rider jumps above the board, leaving it on the ground to pass under an object the rider is jumping over.

(skateboarding) To perform this trick.