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say it: JUHM-ping
jumping is a noun meaning "the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump". It is pronounced /ˈdʒʌmpɪŋ/ — JUHM-ping. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump
the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
“he advanced in a series of jumps”
“the jumping was unexpected”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jumping come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.