# jumper

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/ · frequency rank #11,240

## Definitions
1. Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
2. A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
3. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
4. An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
5. A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
6. A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
7. A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
8. A jumping spider.
9. The larva of the cheese fly.
10. One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
11. A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
12. A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
13. A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
14. A platform game based around jumping.
15. Ellipsis of smokejumper.

## Etymology
From jump + -er.

## Easily confused with
- **jumps** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jumper-vs-jumps)
- **jumpy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jumper-vs-jumpy)
- **juniper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jumper-vs-juniper)
- **jump** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jump-vs-jumper)
- **jumped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jumped-vs-jumper)
- **jasper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jasper-vs-jumper)
- **Jammer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jammer-vs-jumper)

## Common misspellings (9)
`jjumper`, `jmuper`, `jumepr`, `jummper`, `jumperr`, `jumpper`, `jumpre`, `jupmer`, `ujmper`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/jumper