long jump

¹

noun

, Track and Field.

1. a jump for distance from a running start.
2. a field event featuring competition in the long jump.

long-jump

²

[ lawng-juhmp, long- ]

verb (used without object)

1. Track and Field. to execute a long jump.

long jump

noun

1. an athletic contest in which competitors try to cover the farthest distance possible with a running jump from a fixed board or mark Former Austral, US, and Canadian equivalentbroad jump

Derived Forms

• long jumping, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of long jump¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Not some hyper-long jump, but we usually pick up the season within a day or two.

From The Daily Beast

Here it became necessary for them to take the chance of a long jump.

From Project Gutenberg

He could trot along here quite a distance and then make a long jump into the woods.

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I never come here without remembering Rhazon and his crew on that long jump.

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I was off watch, waiting for cold-sleep—we're just about to make the long jump—when Vorongil came to my quarters.

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In the long jump the athlete employs all the impetus he can acquire by a sprint of about 30 yards.

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