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High jump

noun

A competition that involves jumping as high as possible over a horizontal bar.

The act of jumping as high as possible over a horizontal bar.

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"High jump" Quotes from Famous Books

... A high jump is not so fine a sight as a running race when the horses have got half a mile away and look like a covey of swift birds, but it is still a fine sight. I became very fastidious as to which moment of ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... once the girl gracefully threw herself into the air. He judged she had cleared the back of the animal by at least three feet, a high jump to make straight ...

— The Circus Boys Across The Continent • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... Mackay toyed with the Salisbury boys; it was his pleasure to toss up twisting, floating balls that could scarcely be hit out of the diamond. Wayne had the Bellville players utterly at his mercy; he mixed up his high jump and fast drop so cleverly, with his sweeping out-curve, that his opponents were unable to gauge his ...

— The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories • Zane Grey

Words linked to "High jump" : jumping, field event, Fosbury flop