Idioms

bounce up and down

bounce up and down

To hop up and down. The kids started bouncing up and down when they heard school was closed for the day. Would you take Billy to the potty? He's practically bouncing up and down. My kids were so eager to get to the amusement park that they were bouncing up and down in the hotel lobby.
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bounce up and down

to spring up and down due to natural elasticity or from being jostled or thrown. The ball bounced up and down for an amazingly long time. I bounced up and down in the back of that truck for almost an hour.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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References in periodicals archive
Youngsters are driving other residents mad by shouting and screaming as they bounce up and down.
BOUNCY HASSLE; Trampolines spark rise in rows with neighbours
When you perform them so quickly, the abdominal muscles don't get a maximal workout - momentum takes over to some extent as you bounce up and down. So rather than increasing the number of sit-ups you do (beyond, say, 50 or so), make them more challenging by doing them more slowly, or try some of the variations described at right.
What if you did 5,000 sit-ups a month?
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