Bunny hopping | Gamenator

Bunny hopping chains jumps together while strafing and turning, so the player builds speed beyond the game’s intended maximum. It is a movement exploit of the Quake engine and the engines that descend from it, GoldSrc and Source.

Where the term comes from

Wikipedia says the strafing technique was originally found in Quake.

Examples

Each game links to the source that describes it using the mechanic.

Related terms: Strafe jumping, Rocket jumping, Sequence breaking.

Engines: id Tech, GoldSrc, id Tech, GoldSrc.

Sources

Checked November 3, 2026.

Strafing (video games) — Wikipedia
Bunnyhop - Valve Developer Community — Valve (Internet Archive copy)

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