Jump!

From the LIFE archives and various institutions on the Flickr Commons. 

Girls jumping over boys at a sportsground, Sydney, c. 1930s. Source

A socialite jumping on a diving board, California, 1947. Source

A girl jumping in her backyard, Brooklyn, NY, 1886. Source

A girl jumping onto a beach, Australia, c. 1930s. Source

A woman leaping for a ferry, Sydney Harbour, 1940. Source

Leapfrog at the beach, Denmark, early 20th C. Source

A Ghanaian jumping for joy at a speech of the premier of Ghana, Kwame Nikrumah, 1959. Source

A girl jumping at Coney Island, NYC, 1886. Source

An unidentified dancer in a ballet, Sydney, 1940. Source

A whale at Sea Life Park in Hawaii jumping for food, 1966 [caption says "1901", which is the default; the other photographs in the series are more reasonably marked 1966]. Source

A girl jumping on a trampoline, Sarasota, Florida, 1952. Source

An astronaut jumping off a truck for during a parachute drill at a NASA research centre, US, 1963. Source

Five girls jumping in a photograph by Gjon Mili, 1941. Source

Using poles to jump across a flooded field, the Netherlands, 1938. Source

A little girl jumping from a homemade jungle gym, US, 1949. Source

Dancer Ray Bolger jumping in the air during a dance routine at a "Gay 90s" party, US, 1939. Source

Women jumping over a tennis net, Sydney, 1937 Source

A proper Victorian gentlemen jumping in the backyard for a reason I wish I knew, NYC, 1890. Source

A girl jumps over a motorscooter on Daytona Beach, Florida, 1948. Source

Top US tennis player of 1939, Alice Marble, jumping over a tennis net. Source

Architect and designer Frank Gehry jumping on a cardboard desk, part of his line of cardboard furniture, US, 1972. Source

A trio of little girls jump rope, Brooklyn, NY, 1886. Source

Smithsonsian Science Service staff photographer Fremont Davis jumps in the air, mid-20th C. Source