jumping up and down

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   jumping in one spot (as in excitement)

   “the wailing and jumping up and down exhausted him”

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Questions about jumping up and down

What does jumping up and down mean?

jumping up and down means "jumping in one spot (as in excitement)".

Is jumping up and down a common word?

jumping up and down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.