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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

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

After a vaulting horse had been built from odds & ends of lumber, Peter and John hid inside it, while other prisoners carried it outdoors and set it up in front of a guard box.

From Time Magazine Archive

Host's speech:— —And for a leap O' the vaulting horse, to play the vaulting house.—

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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