A leaden weight used in lifting exercises; the weight attached to a whirlbat, a kind of club used in games or exercise. Cf. whirlbat, n. 1. Obsolete.

A small platform, typically fixed along one edge and supported on the opposite side by springs, used by a gymnast, acrobat, etc., to gain the…

A contrivance on which a person rides, sits astride, or is carried, as on horseback. A vaulting block in a gymnasium.

A base of elastic material used as a springboard and landing area in acrobatic exercises and displays; now spec. a sheet of canvas, nylon mesh, or…

A heavy stick or staff for use as a weapon, thin enough at one end to be grasped with the hand, and increasing in thickness and weight towards the…

Applied to various objects consisting of two or more supports and a cross-piece. A gymnastic apparatus.

Either of a pair of bottle-shaped clubs swung to exercise the arms.

In various special uses. A rope suspended vertically in a gymnasium for climbing and other exercises.

Applied to various mechanical contrivances, or artificial structures, of which the whole or the main part works or lies in a horizontal direction.

An apparatus for gymnastic exercises and feats, consisting of a horizontal crossbar suspended by two ropes in the manner of a swing.

attributive in various uses, as vaulting bar, vaulting buck, vaulting-master, vaulting motion.

a pair of parallel horizontal rails supported on posts about 180 cm (6 feet) above the ground, used in men's gymnastics; also figurative.

wooden horse n. A wooden structure in a gymnasium, for vaulting exercise: = horse, n. 6c.

= trapeze, n. 1. rare.

a gymnastic apparatus, consisting of an upright pole with a revolving head, to which ropes are attached, by holding which, one is able to take…

Gymnastics. In plural. (An apparatus consisting of) a pair of rings suspended approx. 2.5 metres above the floor on cables, used by a (usually male)…

vaulting horse. Gymnastics. A wooden figure of a horse employed for exercise in vaulting.

An upright pole or similar vertical structure resembling a ship's mast, esp. one supporting a flag, lightning conductor, broadcasting aerial…

= giant stride n.

Either of a pair of removable curved handgrips fitted to a vaulting horse.

each of a pair of rings suspended from ropes, used in gymnastics and acrobatics (chiefly in plural; cf. ring, n.1 6).

A piece of resilient, usually padded material on which wrestling bouts, gymnastic displays, etc., are performed.

one of a set of parallel bars, attached to the wall of a gymnasium, usually running from floor to ceiling, on which various exercises are performed.

a vaulting horse fitted with pommels.

The male of several animals. A short vaulting-horse in a gymnasium. Cf. buck, n.7

intransitive. Gymnastics to leap with both feet together while grasping the pommels of a pommel horse.

Chiefly U.S. A small circular trampoline used for exercising.