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Jumping vs Bouncing - What's the difference?

jumping | bouncing |

As adjectives the difference between jumping and bouncing

is that jumping is excellent, very fun while bouncing is healthy; vigorous.

As verbs the difference between jumping and bouncing

is that jumping is present participle of lang=en while bouncing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between jumping and bouncing

is that jumping is the act of performing a jump while bouncing is the act of something that bounces.

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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    * (versity) (commonscat) (-) ----

    bouncing

    English

    Adjective

  • healthy; vigorous.
    • a bouncing baby girl
  • * Thackeray
    • many tall and bouncing young ladies
  • (obsolete) excessive; big
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • a bouncing reckoning

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * bouncing off the walls

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that bounces.
  • * 1997 , Daniel Price, Without a Woman to Read: Toward the Daughter in Postmodernism
    • this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those bouncings .

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