Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context uncountable English) An athletics event where a competitor must jump over a bar placed gradually higher and higher.
WordNet
n. a competition that involves jumping as high as possible over a horizontal high bar
the act of jumping as high as possible over a horizontal bar
Wikipedia
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. In its modern most practised format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat for landing. At the elite level, athletes run towards the bar and use the Fosbury Flop method of jumping, leaping head first with their back to the bar. Performed since ancient times, competitors have introduced increasingly more effective techniques to arrive at the current form.
The discipline is, alongside the pole vault, one of two vertical clearance events to feature on the Olympic athletics programme. It is contested at the World Championships in Athletics and IAAF World Indoor Championships, and is a common occurrence at track and field meetings. The high jump was among the first events deemed acceptable for women, having been held at the 1928 Olympic Games.
Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) is the current men's record holder with a jump of 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 since 1987, also the longest-held record in the event.
High Jump is a two-player strategy board game from Somalia. It is related to draughts and Alquerque as pieces hop over one another for capture; however, pieces move and capture orthogonally and not diagonally. Moreover, the game is played on a 5×5 square board. A feature of High Jump is that the central square offers a kind of sanctuary; a piece occupying the central square cannot be hopped over and captured. The same board is used in the game Seega.
The high jump is a field event in athletics.
High jump, High Jump, or highjump may also refer to:
High Jump is a low budget 1959 British crime film.
Usage examples of "high jump".
A gold medal reminded her of how Warren had been borne off the field on his schoolmates' shoulders after winning a track meet with a spectacular high jump.
Hoshijima is shitting himself, thinking something will go wrong and there's warnings every day that if any of us fuck up we're in for the high jump.
So if whoever is juggling with entropy gets lucky next time, you and I are both for the high jump –.
Fritz qualified for the finals of the hundred-meters, and Beanpole was eliminated from the high jump.
Two things happened in the afternoon: Fritz qualified for the finals of the hundred-meters, and Beanpole was eliminated from the high jump.
I don't figure I set a record for the standing high jump but I did go up like I had wings.
It was a very high jump to do in one bound and he landed awkwardly, stumbled, recovered, raced down the corridor sending a couple of miniature service robots flying, skidded round the corner, burst into Zaphod's door and explained what was on his mind.