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1. Move forward by leaps and bounds
   "Can you jump over the fence?"
   - leap, bound, spring
    
2. Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
   - startle, start
    
3. Make a sudden physical attack on
   "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"
    
4. Increase suddenly and significantly
   "Prices jumped overnight"
    
5. Be highly noticeable
   - leap out, jump out, stand out, stick out
    
6. Enter eagerly into
   "He jumped into the game"
    
7. Rise in rank or status
   "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
   - rise, climb up
    
8. Jump down from an elevated point
   "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"
   - leap, jump off
    
9. Run off or leave the rails
   - derail
    
10. Jump from an aeroplane and descend with a parachute
    - chute, parachute
     
11. Cause to jump or leap
    "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"
    - leap
     
12. Start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
    - jumpstart, jump-start
     
13. Bypass
    - pass over, skip, skip over
     
14. Pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
    "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another"
    - leap
     
15. Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
    - alternate
     
16. [N. Amer, vulgar] Have sexual intercourse with
    - sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, have sex, know [archaic], do it, be intimate, have intercourse, lie with [archaic], bed, have a go at it, get it on, bonk [Brit], make whoopee

1. A sudden and decisive increase
   "a jump in attendance"
   - leap
    
2. An abrupt transition
   - leap, saltation
    
3. (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
    
4. A sudden involuntary movement
   - startle, start
    
5. Descent with a parachute
   - parachuting
    
6. The act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
   "he advanced in a series of jumps"
   - jumping

Derived forms: jumped, jumping, jumps

See also: jump on, jumpy

Type of: actuation, alter, appear, assail, assault, attack, change, climb, copulate, couple, descent, dive, drop, enter, go, inborn reflex, increase, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, leave out, locomote, look, mate, miss, mount, move, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pair, participate, physiological reaction, plunge, plunk, pretermit, propulsion, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, rise, seem, set on, shift, start, start up, switch, transition, travel, unconditioned reflex, vary, wax

Encyclopedia: Jump Jump, South Yorkshire Jump, Little Children