Movement
Synonyms for jump
Synonyms for jump: spring, leap, parachuting and start. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for jump
Interchangeable with jump, one per sense
Audited under jump's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one jump carries in that sense.
- springverb, in the sense "move forward by leaps and bounds"
- leapverb, in the sense "pass abruptly from one state or topic to another"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name jump as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- parachutingparachuting is a noun in the sense "descent with a parachute"
- startstart is a noun in the sense "a sudden involuntary movement"
two of these come from jump's own entries in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
move forward by leaps and bounds
Can you jump over the fence?
jump in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The dog managed to jump over the low garden wall without slowing down.
- She had to jump across the puddle to keep her shoes dry.
How it behaves: Jump usually appears as an intransitive verb followed by a preposition such as over, across, or onto that names the obstacle or destination, in an informal to neutral register.
The true synonym
spring
Same sentence, swapped: Can you spring over the fence?
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- parachute
- alternate
- bob
pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
Jump to a conclusion.
The true synonym
leap
Same sentence, swapped: Leap to a conclusion.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- parachute
- alternate
- shift
Where jump turns up in the game
jump is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in seven other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 7 puzzles where jump is the trap
- footnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is base, in the sense "lowest support of a structure", and jump is on the board beside it.
- shootingnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is shot, in the sense "the act of firing a projectile", with jump sitting one tile away.
- startverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is get, in the sense "take the first step or steps in carrying out an action", and jump is on the board beside it.
- harryverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is plague, in the sense "annoy continually or chronically", and jump is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play jump
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so jump reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from movement at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. jump carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.