Trampoline

Definitions

1. A gymnastic and recreational device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric or rubber stretched over a (usually steel) frame using many coiled springs as anchors.
   countable, uncountable
2. A competitive sport in which athletes are judged on routines of tricks performed on a trampoline.
   uncountable
3. Any of a variety of looping or jumping instructions in specific programming languages.
   countable, uncountable
4. Any of a variety of indirection techniques in specific programming languages.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“No man was ever known to poſſeſs ſuch wonderful activity as Mr. Ireland, the flying Phœnomenon, at the Royal Circus; he poſitively leaps over a large tilted waggon and four horſes, and performs a number⟳ of other feats equally aſtoniſhing; he is a young man of about 23 years of age, 6 feet and an inch high, and does not make⟳ uſe of a ſpring board⟳ or trampoline.”

“Though the name⟳ of the Four Cleos may not be familiar, their pranks are. They perform⟳ on that apparatus resembling a spring⟳ mattress, which has been dubbed the “trampoline,” owing to some confusion with the Anglicised form⟳ of tremplin (springboard).”

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