Jump

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Jump may refer to:

• Jumping, the act of propelling oneself upwards, using one's own power, into the air
• A tool redirecting horizontal velocity into vertical, e.g. a quarter pipe
• Jumping, abandoning or leaving, especially hastily or furtively
• A jump start - a colloquial term for a method of starting an automobile with a dead battery.
• Jump Associates, a design strategy firm based in San Mateo, California
• Jump, South Yorkshire, a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England
• Weekly Shonen Jump, a manga magazine also known as Shonen Jump
• A computer programming language instruction denoting an unconditional branch.
• Jump, a 1999 film
• Jump In!, a Disney Channel Original Movie
• Jump (Alliance-Union universe), a fictional faster-than-light technology used in the Alliance-Union universe
• JUMP, an off-Broadway comedy from Korea.
• Jump, an Israeli clothing/fashion company.
• Jump!, a 1987 computer game for Commodore 64 by Loadstar
• Jump, a term in some blog entries ("More after the jump"), indicating a break (usually an advertisement), with the text continued below it
• Jumps is a frog from Beanie Babies 2.0
• Jump, A game made by 2SoulDesign for the iRiver
• Jump drive, one of the speculative inventions in science fiction, a method of traveling faster than light
• JumpDrive, a common name for a USB flash drive
• Russel Jump, American politician
• JUMP - Java Metamodel Protocol, a metadata language for profiling data
• an obstacle in steeplechase, point to point, or hunter hack horse racing

[edit] Music

Jump is also the name of several songs and/or album:

• Jump, a genre in electronic music. Originates from Belgium.
• Jump Records, a record label
• Jump blues, a musical genre
• Jump, Little Children, a band that has at various times gone by the name of "Jump"
• Jump! is a 1984 album by Van Dyke Parks
• "Jump (for My Love)", a Pointer Sisters song (later covered by the group Girls Aloud)
• "Jump (Van Halen song)"
• "Jump (Kris Kross song)"
• "Jump", A song by The Movement
• "Jump", A song by N.E.R.D
• "Jump", A song by Bodyrox
• "Jump (Simple Plan song)"
• "Jump (Every Little Thing single)"
• "Jump (Madonna song)"
• "Jump (The Faders song)"
• "Jump 1 (Penicillin song)"
• "Jump", a song by Loverboy from their 1981 album Get Lucky
• "Jump" is a 2000 song by the electronic group Mephisto Odyssey