Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. a pool or stream in a steeplechase or similar contest
Usage examples of "water jump".
Over the water jump in front of the stands and out again towards Becher's with the whole course to jump again.
There were nine jumps in all: a brush fence, a stile, a gate, parallel bars, the road-closed sign put up to a nasty five foot, another brush with a pole on top, a water jump which had been drained by various dogs, a wall and a triple.
Each time they passed the water jump, Cathy suddenly surged, leaving Bideau five metres behind.
The finish was on the side closer to us and the water jump was on the inner course of the track.
Soon after the start the horses circled the tower, cut closer across beside it and sped towards the water jump and the farther part, of the course, took the bottom bend, and returned towards the start.
After crossing the water jump for the second time over on the far side of the track, the show-jumper made a spurt to the front and then slowed almost to a standstill on landing over the next fence, having jumped especially pedantically, and the aunt crashed into the back of him with some singularly un-aunt-like language.
She put her hand on my arm and asked me to walk down the course with her and Dane to watch the next race from beside the water jump.
I grinned with irrepressible joy and got Revelation to lengthen his stride for the water jump.
How about paying Vusamanzi a goat and he can make the water jump aside, shades of Moses and the Red Sea.
But prodding the earth on the landing side of the water jump with my heel I felt it jar instead of give.