<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person or thing that jumps.</li><li>Basketball: jump shot.</li><li>Sports: a participant in a jumping event, as in track or skiing.</li><li>Manège: a horse specially trained to jump obstacles.</li><li>a boring tool or device worked with a jumping motion.</li><li>Also called jump wire: a short length of conductor used to make a connection, usually temporary, between terminals of a circuit or to bypass a circuit.</li><li>Also called jumper cable, booster cable.</li><li>a kind of sled.</li><li>Also called jumper stay: a line preventing the end of a spar or boom from being lifted out of place.</li><li>any of various fishes that leap from the water, as the striped mullet or jumprock.</li></ul>