Meaning & use
Bounding
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Moving quickly with large leaping or springing strides.
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The puppy came bounding across the yard to greet its owner.
She went bounding up the stairs two at a time, eager to share the news.
A note on using this word
In computing and geometry, a "bounding box" is the smallest rectangle or cube that fully contains a given shape — a very different, technical use of the same root word.
Words with a similar meaning
leapingspringing
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Words with an opposite meaning
creepingtrudging
Another way to use it
2. adjective
Forming the outer limit or boundary of something, especially in geometry or computing.
The software calculated a bounding box around each object in the image.
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