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long jump

noun

, Track and Field.

long-jump

[ lawng-juhmp, long- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

long jump

an athletic contest in which competitors try to cover the farthest distance possible with a running jump from a fixed board or mark Former Austral, US, and Canadian equivalentbroad jump

First recorded in 1880–85

Not some hyper-long jump, but we usually pick up the season within a day or two.

Here it became necessary for them to take the chance of a long jump.

He could trot along here quite a distance and then make a long jump into the woods.

I never come here without remembering Rhazon and his crew on that long jump.

I was off watch, waiting for cold-sleep—we're just about to make the long jump—when Vorongil came to my quarters.

In the long jump the athlete employs all the impetus he can acquire by a sprint of about 30 yards.

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