HTML

 <nav>
      <ul>
          <li class="item">Home</li>
          <li class="item">Content</li>
          <li class="item">About</li>
          <li class="item">Contact Us</li>

      </ul>
  </nav>


  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/gsap/3.12.5/gsap.min.js"></script>
  <script src="script.js"></script>


CSS


body{
    background-color: #fff;
    overflow: hidden;
}
.container{
    height: 100vh;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    
}
.item{
    color: grey;
    font-size: large;
    font-weight: bolder;
    cursor: pointer;
}


JS


let itemList = document.querySelectorAll(".item");


itemList.forEach(function (item, index) {

    let animation = gsap.to(item, {color: "black",x:3,y: -3, ease: "", duration:0.3, paused:true  })
    
    item.addEventListener("mouseenter", function() {
        animation.play()
    })
    item.addEventListener("mouseleave", function() {
        animation.reverse()
    })
})