(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.

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

plural of jump rope

Alternative form of jump-start

The process or result of jump-starting a motor vehicle. / (sports) A false start

A winter sport in which skiers ski down a take-off ramp and attempt to jump as far as possible.

(transitive) To start a motor vehicle by passing an electrical current from a charged battery to the discharged ("dead" or "flat") battery of the vehicle being started, by using booster cables to temporarily connect the two batteries in parallel.

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