"Jump (for My Love)" is a song by the American vocal group The Pointer Sisters. The song is from their 1983 album Break Out. Released on April 11, 1984, The song was originally titled "Jump" but was changed to "Jump (for My Love)" prior to its release as a single to avoid confusion with the Van Halen song "Jump", which was released earlier the same year. The song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The first hit song co-written by Marti Sharron - who in the mid-1970s had been a staff writer for Miami-based disco pioneer TK Records along with co-writers Gary Skardina and Stephen Mitchell - "Jump (for My Love)" typified the overall sound of Break Out but was passed over as the album's lead single in favor of the ballad "I Need You," which producer Richard Perry felt would reinforce the Pointer Sisters' presence at R&B radio. Although originally scheduled as the album's second single, "Jump" was superseded by another Break Out track, "Automatic", which had enjoyed heavy radio and dance club airplay as an album cut. "Automatic" returned the Pointer Sisters to the Pop Top Ten after a three-year absence; however, "Jump (for My Love)" became the most successful US single off of Break Out upon its release as the album's third single in April 1984. The song ascended to a peak of #3 on both the Hot 100 and R&B chart in Billboard magazine that July, with the track also charting on Billboard's adult contemporary chart at #11.

"Jump (for My Love)" would afford the Pointer Sisters an international hit, charting in Belgium (#3 on the Flemish chart), Germany (#20), Ireland (#2), the Netherlands (#9), New Zealand (#3), Switzerland (#13), and the UK (#6). In Australia, "Jump" was issued as the lead single off Break Out in December 1983 and peaked at #79: reissued after "Automatic," it would reach an Australian chart peak of #8 in the summer of 1984. The Australian single release of "Jump" was also unique in featuring as B-side the Break Out track "Operator" with Anita Pointer on lead; in other territories, "Heart Beat", a track with Ruth Pointer on lead introduced on the Pointer Sisters previous album So Excited!, was utilized as the B-side of "Jump (for My Love)." Released prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics games, the song's video featured footage of athletes competing in track and field events, as well as NBA stars Julius Erving and Magic Johnson. The Pointer Sisters were awarded the 1985 Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "Jump (for My Love)". Steve Mitchell (co-writer) received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1985.

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