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vaulting horse

noun

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

vaulting horse

noun

  1. gymnastics a padded apparatus on legs, used for vaulting exercises Also calledbuck
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vaulting horse1

First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences

A wooden vaulting-horse with the stuffing would have been expensive: they abandoned the idea.

Jean sprang to her feet on the top of the vaulting-horse, and danced up and down in her excitement.

Only the gaunt parallel bars, and idle swings, and melancholy vaulting-horse.

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