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vaulting horse

American

noun

Gymnastics.

a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.

vaulting horse British

noun

Also called: buck. gymnastics a padded apparatus on legs, used for vaulting exercises

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Etymology

Origin of vaulting horse

First recorded in 1870–75

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vaulting horse

In the Wooden Horse escape, in which a tunnel was dug underneath a vaulting horse, he was one of the organising committee.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024

In the wooden horse attempt, he and others continuously jumped over a vaulting horse which covered the trap door to an escape tunnel.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2022

Russian gymnast Svetlana Khorkina lost the all-around because – get this — officials set the vaulting horse five centimeters too low.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2012

The easily recognized approach entails a cartwheel onto the springboard in front of the vaulting horse, followed by a launch backward onto the horse.

From Time Magazine Archive

The plump bald sergeant major was testing with his foot the springboard of the vaulting horse.

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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