springboardnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈsprɪŋ.bɔːd/us/ˈsprɪŋ.bɔːrd/springboard noun [ C ] (SPORT)
a board that can bend, helping people to jump higher when jumping or diving into a swimming pool or when doing gymnastics
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Swimming
- aquatics
- armband
- backstroke
- bellyflop
- butterfly
- depth
- diving board
- dog paddle
- dove
- frogman
- gala
- pearl diver
- scissor kick
- scuba diving
- shaken
- snorkel
- stroke
- swallow dive
- swan dive
- tread
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springboard noun [ C ] (GOOD START)
something that provides you either with the opportunity to follow a particular plan of action, or the encouragement that is needed to make it successful:
The firm's director is confident that the new project will act as a springboard for/to further contracts.
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Opportunity
- a free ride idiom
- another/a second bite at/of the cherry idiom
- best bet idiom
- bite
- break
- chance
- half
- it's now or never idiom
- look in
- make hay while the sun shines idiom
- manqué
- miss
- op
- pass
- the American dream
- the run of sth idiom
- the world is sb's oyster idiom
- there are plenty more fish in the sea idiom
- toehold
- window
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