1. an athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement; [syn: triple jump, hop-step-and-jump]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
triple jump
n 1: an athletic contest in which a competitor must perform
successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous
movement [syn: triple jump, hop-step-and-jump]