List of jumping activities

Track events

• High jump, in which athletes jump over horizontal bars.
• Hurdling, a foot race in which runners leap over hurdles.
• Long jump, where the objective is to leap horizontally as far as possible.
• Pole vault, in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to jump over a bar.
• Triple jump, the objective is to leap horizontally as far as possible, in a series of three jumps.

Sports

• American football
• Association football ("soccer" in U.S. and Canada)
• Australian Rules football
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Bossaball
• Cheerleading
• Dancing
• Diving
• Figure skating
• Gymnastics
• Jump rope
• Martial arts
• Netball
• Parkour
• Racquetball
• Rugby
• Skateboarding
• Skiing
• Squash
• Swimming
• Table tennis
• Team Handball
• Tennis
• Trampolining
• Ultimate
• Volleyball
• Jumping Jack

Animal sports

Early motion picture of a horse jumping

• Dog agility, in which a dog traverses various obstacles, including jumps.
• Show jumping and Eventing, competitions where a horse jumps over fences.
• Fox hunting, in which horses and fox hounds jump over fences and other obstacles.