List of jumping activities
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Track events
- High jump, in which athletes jump over horizontal bars.
- Hurdling, a foot race in which runners leap over hurdles.
- Long jump, where the objective is to leap horizontally as far as possible.
- Pole vault, in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to jump over a bar.
- Triple jump, the objective is to leap horizontally as far as possible, in a series of three jumps.
Sports
- American football
- Association football ("soccer" in U.S. and Canada)
- Australian Rules football
- Badminton
- Basketball
- Bossaball
- Cheerleading
- Dancing
- Diving
- Figure skating
- Gymnastics
- Jump rope
- Martial arts
- Netball
- Parkour
- Racquetball
- Rugby
- Skateboarding
- Skiing
- Squash
- Swimming
- Table tennis
- Team Handball
- Tennis
- Trampolining
- Ultimate
- Volleyball
- Jumping Jack
Animal sports
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Early motion picture of a horse jumping
- Dog agility, in which a dog traverses various obstacles, including jumps.
- Show jumping and Eventing, competitions where a horse jumps over fences.
- Fox hunting, in which horses and fox hounds jump over fences and other obstacles.
