IMO it’s jumping that has almost no horizontal movement or that completely stops the character from running.
After playing Guardians of the galaxy, this was the thing I hated the most about it…why make the jumps move you so little?
DMC also does this, the jumps are high, but they barely move horizontally and your character stops dead on his tracks before being to jump.
Warframe does the opposite of this where hard just means everything one shots you.