jumping

Etymology

adj

1. (colloquial) Exuberantly active; in full swing.
   When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo) And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo) 1998, Baha Men (lyrics and music), “Who Let the Dogs Out?”

verb

1. present participle and gerund of jump

noun

1. The act of performing a jump.
   When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once. 1871, John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion, page 291