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high jump meaning

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WHigh jump
  • The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it.
  • The discipline is, alongside the pole vault, one of two vertical clearance events to feature on the Olympic athletics programme.
  • Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) is the current men's record holder with a jump of 2.45 m (8 ft 01⁄4 in) set in 1993 – the longest standing record in the history of the men's high jump. Stefka Kostadinova (Bulgaria) has held the women's world record at 2.
high jump
high jump
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Nouns
      • Singularia tantum
        • Uncountable nouns
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    1. en high jumper
    2. en high jumpers
    Source: Wiktionary

    Meaning of high jump for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this idiom "high jump" is a noun, more specifically, a singularia tantum.
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