Jump

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Jumping is the physical action of propelling oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

Jump or Jumping may also refer to:

Places

• Jump, South Yorkshire, a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire in England
• Jump, Ohio, a community in the United States

Science and engineering

• In mathematics, a jump discontinuity; see Classification of discontinuities
• A step in a jump process or in jump diffusion, in physics and economy
• Hydraulic jump, a phenomenon in fluid dynamics
• A tool redirecting horizontal velocity into vertical, e.g. a quarter pipe

Computing

• Jump statement (or unconditional branch instruction), altering the control flow
• JumpDrive, a common name for a USB flash drive
• JMP (statistical software)

Media

Magazine

• Jump (magazine line), a line of manga magazines

Film and television

• Jump (2009 film), a 2009 Hong Kong comedy-drama film
• Jump! (film), a 2007 film featuring Patrick Swayze and Martine McCutcheon
• Jump (1999 film), a 1999 film featuring James LeGros, Mark Rosenthal and Jessica Hecht
• Jump (2012 film), a 2012 Northern Irish film
• Jumping (film), a 1986 Belgian film
• "Jump" (Ugly Betty), the season 2 finale episode of Ugly Betty
• Jump! (TV series), a Singaporean television series
• Jump In!, a Disney Channel film
• "Jumping", an episode of the television series Teletubbies

Music

• Jump Records, a record label
• Jump blues, a musical genre
• Jumpstyle, a genre in electronic music
• Jump, Little Children, a band that has at various times gone by the name of "Jump"
• Jump! (album), by Van Dyke Parks
• Jump (Djumbo album)
• Jumping (EP), by Kara
• Jamshid "Jumps" Khadiwhala, turntablist for The Cat Empire

Songs

• "Jump Around", a 1992 song by House of Pain
• "Jump (for My Love)", a song by The Pointer Sisters (later covered by Girls Aloud)
• "Jump" (Van Halen song)
• "Jump" (Kris Kross song)
• "Jump" (Simple Plan song)
• "Jump" (Every Little Thing song)
• "Jump" (Madonna song)
• "Jump" (Flo Rida song)
• "Jump" (Rihanna song)
• "Jumpin' Jumpin'", a song by Destiny's Child
• "Jumpin'" (Liberty X song)
• "Jumping" (Kara song)
• "Jump", a song by The Faders
• "Jump", a song by Loverboy from their 1981 album Get Lucky
• "Jump!", a 1992 song performed by The Movement
• "Jump", a track by Kylie Minogue on her 1997 album Impossible Princess
• "Jump", a song by N*E*R*D from the 2004 album Fly or Die

Theater

• Jump (comic martial-arts performance)

Sports

• Skydiving and BASE jumping
• Figure skating jumps
• Jumping (horse)
  • Jumping, show jumping, or stadium jumping, the competitive equestrian event
• Track and field
  • High jump
  • Long jump
  • Triple jump

Science fiction

• Jump drive, one of the speculative inventions in science fiction, a method of traveling faster than light
• Jump (Alliance-Union universe), a fictional faster-than-light technology used in C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe
• J.U.M.P., a fictional weapon in the G.I. Joe universe

Organizations

• Jump Associates, a design strategy firm based in San Mateo, California

Education

• IAESTE JUMP (Join Us to Motivate People), an International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience seminar

Miscellaneous

• To get attacked by a group of people e.g. assault
• Jump start (vehicle), a colloquial term for a method of starting an automobile with a dead battery
• The act of having sex
• Gordon Jump, American actor
• The Jump, a bus route run by the Denver Regional Transportation District between Boulder and Lafayette in Colorado

See also

• Jump River (disambiguation)
• Jumpy (disambiguation)
• Jump start (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Jump"
• All pages with a title containing Jump