[Vocabulary] to jump, to leap, to hop

[euncu]

I'll appreciate if you help me out on differentiating these words.

Thanks for your replies in advance.

 

[Barb_D]

I don't see a difference between jumping and leaping, although hopping is on one foot.

 

[Allen165]

NOT A TEACHER.

"Jumping" and "leaping" connote a greater amount of time spent in the air than "hopping."

 

[apex2000]

If we consider one of the athletics disciplines we have the hop, skip and jump (as it used to be called and the action still follows that description). Watch the action; the athlete take a run up to the start board where s/he hops off from one foot, lands on the other foot then takes off for the final jump when s/he lands on both feet. There is little or no discernible difference between the time in the air for each one.

However, a jump is either up and down or an attempt to cover a horizontal distance. A leap is most likely an attempt to get somewhere, such as across a gorge, crevasse or other obstacle and may also be a leap out from a cliff down into water but not upwards. The hop is performed (jumping or leaping) taking off from one foot and landing on the other one.

 

[Rover_KE]

The hop is performed (jumping or leaping) taking off from one foot and landing on the other one.

I think you'll find, apex, that hopping means landing on the same foot that you took off with.

Rover

 

[apex2000]

Oh dear! Time for me to get my eyes tested and the prescription changed. Apologies all round.