"jumping jack" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: jumping jacks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} jumping jack (plural jumping jacks)
  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: jumping-jack, side-straddle hop, star jump [Australia, UK] Translations (exercise): скок трупешката (skok trupeškata) (Bulgarian), 開合跳 (Chinese Mandarin), 开合跳 (kāihétiào) (Chinese Mandarin), 跳躍運動 (Chinese Mandarin), 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. (dated) A toy figure of a person, with jointed limbs, that can be made to jump or dance by means of pulling attached strings. Tags: dated 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-oW5DVRBM Categories (other): Terms with Faroese translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Faroese translations: 41 36 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 38 33 29 Disambiguation of 'toy': 0 100 0
  3. 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-IPrabosm Categories (other): Terms with Faroese translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Faroese translations: 41 36 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 38 33 29

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 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.