high jumpingn.
/ˈhʌɪ dʒʌmpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhaɪ ˌdʒəmpɪŋ/ The act or action of performing the high jump. Cf. high jump n. 1.
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1849 Bell's Life in London 14 Oct. 6/4 Mr Brackenbury now showed that his agility was not alone confined to high jumping, but jumped the farthest in the standing wide leap.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 50/2 High jumping—one of the prettiest of our athletic pastimes.
1961 F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 61/2 Scissors jump, in high jumping, that method in which the body is in a virtually upright sitting position, and the legs move in an up-and-down motion.
2002 J. Weyland Answer is Never xvi. 268 Dick Fosbury's introduction of the Fosbury flop..revolutionized high jumping at the Mexico City Olympics.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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