Jump

Jump may refer to:

• Jumping, to propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne
• To get attacked by a group of people e.g. assault
• Jump start (vehicle), a colloquial term for a method of starting an automobile with a dead battery

Places

• Jump, South Yorkshire, a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England, Dunedin

Science and engineering

• In mathematics, a jump discontinuity; see Classification of discontinuities
• A step in a jump process or in jump diffusion, in physics and economy
• Hydraulic jump, a phenomenon in fluid dynamics
• A tool redirecting horizontal velocity into vertical, e.g. a quarter pipe

Computing

• Jump!, a 1987 computer game for Commodore 64 by Loadstar
• Jump statement (or unconditional branch instruction), altering the control flow
• JumpDrive, a common name for a USB flash drive
• JMP (statistical software)

Media

• Jump (magazine line), a line of manga magazines

Film and television

• Jump! (film), a 2007 film featuring Patrick Swayze and Martine McCutcheon
• "Jump" (Ugly Betty), the season finale episode of Ugly Betty
• Jump In!, a Disney Channel film

Music

• Jump Records, a record label
• Jump blues, a musical genre
• Jumpstyle, a genre in electronic music
• Jump, Little Children, a band that has at various times gone by the name of "Jump"
• Jump! (album), by Van Dyke Parks
• Jump (Djumbo album)
• Jumping (EP), by Kara
• Jamshid "Jumps" Khadiwhala, turntablist for The Cat Empire
• Jump, a band with members, Scott Thurston, Mark Spiwak, Dennis Tracy, Dan Gorman

Songs

• "Jump Around", a 1992 song by House of Pain
• "Jump (for My Love)", a Pointer Sisters song (later covered by the group Girls Aloud)
• "Jump" (Van Halen song)
• "Jump" (Kris Kross song)
• "Jump" (Simple Plan song)
• "Jump" (Every Little Thing song)
• "Jump" (Madonna song)
• "Jump" (Flo Rida song)
• "Jumpin'" (Kara song)
• "Jump", a song by The Faders
• "Jump", a song by Loverboy from their 1981 album Get Lucky
• "Jump!", a 1992 song performed by The Movement
• "Jump", a track by Kylie Minogue on her 1997 album Impossible Princess
• "Jump", a song by N*E*R*D from the 2004 album Fly or Die
• "Jumpin", a song by Liberty X
• "Jumpin' Jumpin'", a song by Destiny's Child

Theater

• Jump (comic martial-arts performance)

Sports

• Figure skating jumps
• Jumping (horse)
  • Jumping, show jumping, or stadium jumping, the competitive equestrian event

Science fiction

• Jump drive, one of the speculative inventions in science fiction, a method of traveling faster than light
• Jump (Alliance-Union universe), a fictional faster-than-light technology used in C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe
• J.U.M.P., a fictional weapon in the G.I. Joe universe

Organizations

• Jump Associates, a design strategy firm based in San Mateo, California

Education

• JUMP (Join Us to Motivate People), an IAESTE seminar

Transportation

• The Jump, a bus route run by the Regional Transportation District between Boulder, CO and Lafayette, CO

See also

• All pages beginning with "Jump"
• All pages with titles containing "Jump"