high jumper
nounTrack.
a participant in the high jump.
Origin of high jumper
1First recorded in 1895–1900
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How to use high jumper in a sentence
But wherever his abilities lay, it was plain that the red-headed boy had not been cut out by nature for a high jumper.
The Boy Scouts of Lakeville High | Leslie W. Quirk"I'm no high-jumper, I guess," he laughed, as he quit the line of contestants.
The Boy Scouts of Lakeville High | Leslie W. QuirkMatador, the celebrated Belgian high jumper, can do the Spanish trot like a circus horse.
The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It | Walter WinansHe was a fair high-jumper, usually certain of third place in the Dual Meet.
Quarter-Back Bates | Ralph Henry BarbourIf you keep on improving as you've done lately, you'll make a high-jumper in a hundred more years, old top!
T. Haviland Hicks Senior | J. Raymond Elderdice
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