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Definition of Long jump

1. Noun. A competition that involves jumping as far as possible from a running start.

2. Noun. The act of jumping as far as possible from a running start.

Definition of Long jump

1. Noun. An athletics field event where one has jump as far as possible, after taking a run-up. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Long Jump

long haul long hauls long head long head of triceps long hop long hops long horse long hundred long hundreds long hundredweight

long in the tooth long incubation hepatitis long interspersed elements long iron long johns long jump (current term) long jumper long jumpers long legs long lens

long levatores costarum muscles long live long lost long measure long meter long meters long moss long muscle of head long muscle of neck long off

Literary usage of Long jump

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"Then came the "long jump," which Americans also gained. Then Garrett, of Princeton, beat the Greeks themselves at their old classic sport of "throwing the ..."

2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"Then came the "long jump," which Americans also gained. Then Garrett, of Princeton, beat the Greeks themselves at their old classic sport of " throwing the ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"A novice who has to learn the way to long jump must give himself six or eight ... With regard to actual practice at the long jump, he must aim at three ..."

4. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register by Horace Greeley (1901)
"... 60 metre flat, 2500 metre steeple- "hase, long jump, high jump, pole vault. New-York AC—Putting shot, standing igh jump, long jump, 100 metre standing ..."

5. (John L. Stoddard's) Lectures; Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"Then came the "long jump," which Americans also gained. Then Garrett, of Princeton, beat the Greeks themselves at their old classic sport of "throwing the ..."

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