"jumping jack" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: jumping jacks [plural], jumping-jack [alternative]
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  1. A physical exercise performed by jumping to a position with the legs spread wide and the hands touching overhead and then returning to a position with the feet together and the arms at the sides. Synonyms: side-straddle hop, star jump Translations (exercise): скок трупешката (skok trupeškata) (Bulgarian), 開合跳 /开合跳 (kāihétiào) (Chinese Mandarin), 跳躍運動 /跳跃运动 (tiàoyuè yùndòng) (Chinese Mandarin), haarahyppy (Finnish), Hampelmann [masculine] (German), pajacyk [masculine] (Polish), polichinelo [masculine] (Portuguese), звёздочка (zvjózdočka) [feminine] (Russian), saltos [masculine] (Spanish), การกระโดดตบ (Thai)
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  2. A machine, roughly the size of a three-year-old child, the foot of which vibrates forcefully, causing it to "jump" rapidly, pounding the ground to compact it.
    Sense id: en-jumping_jack-en-noun-en:machine_for_ground_compaction Categories (other): English links with manual fragments
  3. (dated) A toy figure of a person with jointed limbs that can be made to appear to dance or jump by pulling an attached string. Tags: dated Synonyms: quockerwodger Translations (toy): sprællemand [common-gender] (Danish), trekpop [feminine] (Dutch), sprellimaður [masculine] (Faroese), spjálkidukka [feminine] (Faroese), spælimaður [masculine] (Faroese), Hampelmann [masculine] (German), Kistenteufel [masculine] (German), Schachtelteufel [masculine] (German), Springteufel [masculine] (German), sprellikarl [masculine] (Icelandic), pajacyk [masculine] (Polish), sprattelgubbe [common-gender] (Swedish), Jac sbonc [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-jumping_jack-en-noun-en:toy_figure_with_jointed_limbs Disambiguation of 'toy': 0 0 100

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (f074e77 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.