What is "jumps"

Usage examples of "jumps".

She started down with small jumps, then swore as the rope crumbled a bit of the edge, showering her with gravel and a nasty piece of limestone that caromed off her shin.

Three jumps on the crazy ships gives them only one chance in eight of making it!

Even should they survive three jumps on a mass displacement ship, or crazy ship in the common vernacular, they will still arrive at the colony with no assets and little prospects of earning an independent living, or so it is said.

The last thing he saw and heard was the judge sentencing the pony tailed redhead to three jumps on the displacement ships, also under the tutorage of the Tremaine Corporation.

A ship, coupled with the generating coils that made interstellar jumps possible, had to have an almost equal mass attached to the ship to provide a balance when it made a jump.

He suspected that even should the girl survive the three jumps she had been sentenced to, some other way would be found at the colony to effectively get her into bondage, given her good looks.

Nevertheless, if by some wild toss of the dice he survived his jumps, it might be well to have a friend on Sporeworld.

It was still hard for her to believe where she was, chained and sentenced to three crew jumps on the Crazy Ships, effectively a death sentence, although not quite so certain as the man she had witnessed being given five jumps right before her.

There was no way she would ever be sentenced to three jumps on the Crazy Ships, though she would probably be forced to chance one jump to exile on Sporeworld, just because of her involvement.

Those sentenced or putatively volunteering for more jumps had worse things to worry about, like the probability of thirst and starvation in the black desert between the stars when the odds ran out.

The children were in trouble, unlikely to survive five straight jumps, but why not at least let them be with their parents as long as possible?

They had been spared the holding cells, the judging procedure, and all the rest of the degradation most of those sentenced to jumps on the mass displacement ships were subject to, even though they had as little choice as the prisoners or the rare volunteer.

The one fusion reactor on the world powered most of the manufacturing, including the boosters and propellant for the shuttles and for the tugs to capture the orbiting masses of rock which had arrived from earth instead of ships when jumps went backward.

She was just as surprised as anyone at two successful jumps in a row, but that was what she had been paid for, like others of her kind.

Only an enormous sum of money, and a bedrock loyalty to John Tremaine had induced her to chance two jumps just to be able to report back to the director about conditions on Sporeworld.