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the universal verb for defying gravity, dares, and the part where you stop thinking
means To push off the ground (or any surface) and propel your body or an object upward or across a gap, often suddenly.
from Surfaces in English in the early 1500s, seemingly out of nowhere — no clear ancestor in Old English. It's widely thought to be echoic, a word built to sound like the thing it names: that soft, springy thud of feet leaving and meeting the ground. Possibly related to similar bouncy-sounding words in other languages (Swedish dialect 'gumpa,' to spring), but the truth is it's one of those words that seems to have leapt into the language fully formed.
- flea power
- Fleas jump 150 times their body length
- record height
- Humans clear over eight feet vertically
- startle reflex
- Loud noises trigger involuntary jumps in milliseconds
- verb to noun
- From action to skydiving plunge to BASE leap
- frog tongue
- Some frogs jump 20 times their length
fosbury flop — dick fosbury won 1968 olympic gold medal by jumping backwards over the bar
jonathan edwards triple jump — jonathan edwards set world record of 18.29 meters in gothenburg 1995, unbroken for 29 years