The high jump is leaping over a bar set as high as it will go. Compete in the high jump.
The whole event changed when one athlete went over backwards in 1968 and everybody copied him. To be for the high jump is British slang for being in serious trouble.
1nounhigh jumpLeaping over a bar set as high as it will go.
“The high jump was the last event and lasted two hours.”
high jump is an event.
High plus jump, a plain compound from athletics.
From high + jump.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Sports & Games Played