Jumping jack
The jumping jack is a children's toy , a jointed doll usually made of wood or cardboard with movable arms and legs that can be moved by pulling cords.
history
The expression “jumping jack” for the well-known children's toy is documented in Grimm's dictionary with text examples as early as the 16th century . Around 1750 jumping jacks became a temporary pastime for adults, the ridiculousness of which the encyclopedists denounced. Widest distribution they found when French and German broadsheet manufacturer ( Gustav Kühn in Neuruppin , 1862) printed and colored Ausschneidebogen offered with be glued on cardboard items.
"Hampelmann" is also a figure created by Carl Malß in the Frankfurt Volkstheater . In several local antics in Hessian dialect , the author described a Mr. Hampelmann. In 1832 and 1833 the plays " Herr Hampelmann or the Landparthie nach Königstein " (Frankfurt restaurant sketch in four pictures), " Herr Hampelmann im Eilwagen " (Hampelmanniade in six pictures) and " Herr Hampelmann sucht ein Logis " (local -Lustspiel in five pictures).
Figurative sense
In a figurative sense, jumping jack is colloquially and exaggeratedly a weak-willed person who can be easily influenced by others. The phrase "make yourself a jumping jack" means that you make yourself look ridiculous by responding to the suggestions of others. The verb hampeln or hampeln or the swear word jumping jack for wriggling children expresses that one moves silly or quickly and clumsily, that is, makes movements like a jumping jack.
Gymnastics exercise
A gymnastics exercise that describes the above-mentioned movement of the simultaneous opening and closing of the extremities is also described as a jumping jack if it is performed rhythmically . However, a jumping jack can also be a sporting exercise in which you take your arms up when you jump up and your feet shoulder width apart when you come down.
Jumping jack at a handball game
When Handball game is the movement of the goalkeeper "Jumping Jack" - or "a puppet do" - called when he tried to cover by opening the legs and feet as possible all four corners of the Handball gate at an opponent's throw. The puppet is of handball goalkeepers mostly in one-on-one situations, such as the seven-meter throw or quick counter attack applied.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Entry "Jumping Jack" in: The German Dictionary by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
- ↑ Roger Kaysel: Jumping Jacks . In: Christa Pieske: ABC of luxury paper, production, distribution and use 1860-1930. Museum for German Folklore, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88609-123-6 , pp. 145–146
- ↑ Arnulf Beckmann: The grandpa makes the jumping jack. In: Berliner Zeitung . August 19, 2000, accessed June 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Markus Völker: Jumping jacks on high flight. In: Berliner Zeitung. March 4, 2004, accessed June 8, 2015 .
- ↑ thw-provinzial.de, based on a report by Kieler Nachrichten from November 18, 2005: Zebras again third after Großwallstadt victory , accessed on September 17, 2007 ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
