long jumpn.
/ˈlɒŋ dʒʌmp/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋ ˌdʒəmp/, /ˈlɑŋ ˌdʒəmp/ An athletic event in which competitors jump as far as possible along the ground in one leap from a running (or formerly standing) start.
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1853 Morning Chron. 8 July 5/5 The games will include..long jump (standing), long jump (running), high jump (running), [etc.].
1857 Bell's Life in London 8 Nov. 7/3 The long jump—First, John Kitson, Esq—distance, 18 feet.
1882 W. Besant Revolt of Man vi. 160 It is better to advance the knowledge of the world one inch than to win the long-jump with two-and-twenty feet.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 7/1 The preliminaries of the hurdles, standing high jump, hop-step, and long jumps will also be decided.
1959 Times 24 Aug. 4/2 She was handicapped..in the long jump by a crumbling run-up.
2008 Coaching Youth Track & Field (Amer. Sport Educ. Program) ix. 117 Many of your athletes will likely be very eager to participate in the long jump.
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1873 Sporting Gaz. 3 May 315/1 C. L. Lockton..won the Long Jump Championship.
1907 H. H. Lewis At Mikado's Court xiv. 161 The next moment he made a spring for the door that would have surprised a long-jump athlete.
1961 H. Chapman & H. Abrahams Track & Field Athletics x. 71 It is not often that a Hop, Step and Jump athlete is able to use the more efficient Hitch-kick long jump action.
1974 G. Mitchell Javelin for Jonah ii. 33 He told Margot to rake the long-jump pit..and she slipped a disc.
1992 Time 27 July 63/3 As the heptathlon and long-jump champion of the 1988 Games, she became the greatest..woman athlete in the world.
2004 W. Humber Sporting Chance 69 Richardson won the long jump gold medal at the second British Empire Games in London.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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