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Hurdling vs Jumping - What's the difference?

hurdling | jumping |

As nouns the difference between hurdling and jumping

is that hurdling is (athletics) a track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles while jumping is the act of performing a jump.

As verbs the difference between hurdling and jumping

is that hurdling is while jumping is .

As an adjective jumping is

(colloquial) excellent, very fun.

hurdling

English

(wikipedia hurdling)

Noun

  • (athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
  • hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land
  • * 1993 , Bob Rees, Marika Sherwood, Black Peoples of the Americas (page 51)
    • It is not unusual to find the little school of a Jamaican village nothing more than a hut of wattled hurdlings , covered on the sides with mud or clay, rooted with palm leaves or grass.

    Verb

    (head)

    • jumping

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (colloquial) excellent, very fun
  • * 1998 ,
    • When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)
    And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of performing a jump.
  • * 1871 , John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (page 291)
    • When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once.

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