NOUN
- the act of jumping as far as possible from a running start
- a competition that involves jumping as far as possible from a running start
How To Use long jump In A Sentence
- The prodigiously capable Louise, for instance, is weighing the relative claims upon her imagination of long jumping and bobsleigh.
- If you wanted one magic moment with which to sum up the championships, you would look no further than Eunice Barber and the last-round jump that took her to long jump gold.
- This was Simon's third year in a row to win the National Long Jump title, a remarkable achievement.
- The 23-year-old began her assault on the overnight leader with the best leap in the long jump, 6.61 metres.
- In a running long jump the arms are out of phase, one behind and the other in front.
- Wear chunky cardies over long jumpers and mummify yourself in huge, ultra-long scarves. Times, Sunday Times
- The maths would suggest that speed plus jumping ability equals a cracking long jump. Times, Sunday Times
- Lanre Atijosan, also from Prendergast, then dethroned the reigning champion in the long jump with a mark of 5.65 metres.
- Who holds the world record for the long jump?
- She's put herself in for the 100 metres and the long jump.
