vertical leap
Standing jump height
A vertical leap is the height someone can jump straight up from a standing position, used as a measure of explosive leg power.
The term appears most often in basketball and athletic training contexts: His forty-inch vertical leap made him a dominant rebounder.
Also called vertical jump.
- high jumpVertical leap competition
- hang timeDuration while airborne
- air timeScheduled transmission period
- basketballTeam sport with hoops
- plyometricsExplosive power exercise regimen
gravity · volleyball · muscle fibers · tendons · resistance training · lower body · jump · alley-oop · get up · trajectory · ligaments · force · explosive power · power clean · impulse · acceleration · kinetic energy · center of mass
- athleticismspeed, agility, strength, endurance, stamina
- Jumpshop, bound, skip, bounce, high jump
- basketball trainingdrills, practice, scrimmage, shooting, dribbling
- jumping abilityhang time, spring, bounce, hops, lift
- plyometricsbox jumps, tuck jumps, squat jumps, bounding, bounds
- dunksslam dunk, dunk, jam, stuff, flush
movement direction
vertical leapbroad jump
Leaping for distance
long jump · lateral movement · descent · drop · dive