Usually means: Leaping happily due to excitement.
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  1. jump for joy: Merriam-Webster
  2. jump for joy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jump for joy: Vocabulary.com
  4. jump for joy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. jump for joy: Wiktionary
  6. jump for joy: Dictionary.com
  7. Jump for Joy (2 Unlimited song), Jump for Joy (Bobby Short album), Jump for Joy (Cannonball Adderley album), Jump for Joy (Peggy Lee album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. jump for joy: Rhymezone
  9. jump for joy: FreeDictionary.org
  10. jump for joy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. jump for joy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. jump for joy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. jump for joy: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jump for joy)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To exult, rejoice, or feel elation.

Similar:
exult, walk on air, be on cloud nine, leap for joy, jump at, jump, get one's jollies, do cartwheels, outjump, jam out, more...

Opposite:
mourn, sulk, frown, weep, despair

Types:
cartwheel, somersault, flip, split, leap, more...

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Similar:
exult, walk on air, be on cloud nine, leap for joy, jump at, jump, get one's jollies, do cartwheels, outjump, jam out, more...

Opposite:
mourn, sulk, frown, weep, despair

Types:
cartwheel, somersault, flip, split, leap, more...



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