Jump Shot

Jump shot or jumpshot may refer to:

  • Jump shot, in cue sports such as pool (pocket billiards), a shot in which the cue ball is intentionally jumped into the air to clear an obstacle (usually an object ball)
  • Jump shot (basketball), an attempt to score in basketball by jumping, usually straight up, and in mid-jump, propelling the ball in an arc into the basket, unlike a normal shot in which the player's feet stay on the ground
  • Jumpshot (musician), an American hip-hop & electronica musician based out of New York City.

Famous quotes containing the words jump and/or shot:

    “The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “He shakes the dust from off his feet
    And shambles down the dirty street
    The last man in the town, they said,
    Who’d shot a hundred Yankees dead.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)