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

Example Sentences

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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

They proceeded inversely until Szabo dismounted the parallel bars with relief and Retton came to the vaulting horse, her pet pony.

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 Joyce, James

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