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broad jump
  1. n. a competition that involves jumping as far as possible from a running start [syn: long jump]

  2. the act of jumping as far as possible from a running start [syn: long jump]

Usage examples of "broad jump".

Orr leaped on top of the table after hurling his paddle and came sailing off the other end in a running broad jump with both feet planted squarely in Appleby's face.

That was a fancy new engine rig The Pride carried, the ratio of those broad jump vanes to her unladed mass was way up since Kshshti.

That meant that a standing broad jump from the step below was not likely to carry anyone across.

They could not see in any direction further than a strong man might make a standing broad jump.

The negligible gravity of the moon of Gelal permitted one to broad jump with ease and yet there were drawbacks to this very advantage.

Just as he felt that the other was about to press the trigger, he made a broad jump sideways.

They'd think he was in the Duchess's rooms yet, and he hoped that when they did rush it and didn't find him there the rolled-back carpets would give them the idea that he'd taken a running broad jump from the balcony.