Trampoline

English

Noun

Trampoline (plural Trampolines)

1. A gymnastic and recreational device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs as anchors.
2. (programming) Any of a variety of looping or jumping instructions in specific programming languages

Verb

Trampoline (third-person singular simple present Trampolines, present participle trampolining, simple past and past participle trampolined)

1. To jump as if on a trampoline
2. (programming) To rewrite computer code to use trampolines

Thesaurus

Indian club, Lastex, baleen, barbell, battledore, chewing gum, dumbbell, elastic, elastomer, exerciser, gum, gum elastic, handball, horse, jumping jack, long horse, parallel bars, punching bag, racket, rings, rowing machine, rubber, rubber ball, rubber band, side horse, spandex, spring, springboard, stretch fabric, trapeze, weight, whalebone

Pronunciation

• /ˌt(ʃ)ræmpəˈlin/

Etymology

From Spanish trampolín and/or Italian trampolino

Derived terms

• trampoliner
• trampolining
• trampolinist

Translations

Noun

gymnastic and recreational device

Czech: trampolína (cs) f. Danish: trampolin (da) Dutch: trampoline (nl) f. Esperanto: trampolino (eo) Finnish: trampoliini (fi) German: Trampolin (de) n. Greek: τραμπολίνο (trabolino) Icelandic: trampólín (is) n. Ido: trampolino (io)

Italian: trampolino elastico (it) m. Korean: 트램펄린 (ko) (teuraempeollin) Latin: desultorium n, trampolinum n. (New Latin) Polish: trampolina f. Portuguese: trampolim (pt) m. Russian: батут (ru) (batút) Spanish: trampolín m. Swedish: trampolin c., studsmatta c.

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French

Noun

Trampoline m. (plural Trampolines)

1. trampoline