# A way to make a sprite bounce?
**URL:** https://forum.code.org/t/a-way-to-make-a-sprite-bounce/25808
**Category:** CS Discoveries
**Tags:** csd-unit-3-lesson-9
**Created:** [March 22, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/a-way-to-make-a-sprite-bounce/25808 "2019-03-22T17:19:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@ben\_kuehl](https://forum.code.org/u/ben_kuehl)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/a-way-to-make-a-sprite-bounce/25808/1 "2019-03-22T17:19:17Z")
Anybody have any idea if there is a way you could make a sprite look like it was bouncing. A student was creating a scene with a bunny and she wanted it to bounce. We tried to play around with x and y but nothing could quite get us there. I am assuming maybe once they have booleans and stuff it may be possible?
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### Author:  [@bradleywellsashley](https://forum.code.org/u/bradleywellsashley)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/a-way-to-make-a-sprite-bounce/25808/2 "2019-03-24T13:59:00Z")
Ben,
Just a clarifying question - you would want the first “bounce” to be higher/highest and then each “bounce” afterwards be lower until the bunny rest on the ground? Off the top of my head you could have a variable (“bounce”) that would be equal to the y value and would decrease according to how many time the bunny has touched the ground sprite. You’ll get into this a little bit in Chapter 2 of Unit 3, but the decreasing height on each bounce isn’t taught.
Let me know if you have further questions / if it works!
Brad
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### Author:  [@kookooloopdaking](https://forum.code.org/u/kookooloopdaking)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/a-way-to-make-a-sprite-bounce/25808/3 "2019-11-15T20:42:13Z")
If you have a ground sprite you could do:
var sprite = createSprite(200,200);
sprite.setAnimation(“bunny\_sprite”);
var ground = createSprite(200,375,400,50);
function draw() {
if (sprite.isTouching(ground)) {
ground.displace(sprite);
sprite.velocityY = -10;
} else {
sprite.velocityY -= 0.5;
}
}