Trampoline - Wiktionary

See also: Trampoline

English

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A boy jumping on a trampoline (noun sense 1)
English Wikipedia has an article on:trampolineWikipedia
English Wikipedia has an article on:trampoline (computing)Wikipedia

Etymology

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From Spanish trampolín and/or Italian trampolino; in English, a genericized trademark based on the Spanish word trademarked in 1936, but attested since 1798.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌtɹæmpəˈliːn/, /ˈtɹæmpəˌliːn/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

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trampoline (countable and uncountable, plural trampolines)

  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. Synonym: (obsolete, uncommon) rebound tumbler
    • [1799 June 1, The Times, number 4498, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page [3], column 4: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.]
    • [1930 June 1, “Coliseum. The Four Cleos.”, in The Observer, number 7,253, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 4: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).]
  2. (uncountable) A competitive sport in which athletes are judged on routines of tricks performed on a trampoline. Synonyms: (now historical) rebound tumbling, trampolining
  3. (programming) Any of a variety of looping or jumping instructions in specific programming languages.
  4. (programming) Any of a variety of indirection techniques in specific programming languages.

Derived terms

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  • double mini trampoline
  • trampoline effect

Translations

[edit] gymnastic and recreational device
  • Arabic: مِنَطَّة f (minaṭṭa) Hijazi Arabic: نطنيطة f (nuṭnēṭa)
  • Armenian: բատուտ (hy) (batut), ցատկացանց (hy) (cʻatkacʻancʻ)
  • Bashkir: батут (batut)
  • Bulgarian: батут m (batut)
  • Catalan: llit elàstic, trampolí (ca) m
  • Chinese: Cantonese: 彈床 / 弹床 (daan6 cong4) Mandarin: 蹦床 (zh) (bèngchuáng)
  • Czech: trampolína (cs) f
  • Danish: trampolin (da)
  • Dutch: trampoline (nl) f
  • Esperanto: trampolino (eo)
  • Finnish: trampoliini (fi)
  • French: trampoline (fr) m or f, (less common) trampolin (fr) m
  • Galician: cama elástica f
  • German: Trampolin (de) n
  • Greek: τραμπολίνο (el) (trampolíno)
  • Hebrew: טְרַמְפּוֹלִינָה (he)
  • Hungarian: trambulin (hu)
  • Icelandic: trampólín n
  • Ido: trampolino (io)
  • Indonesian: trampolin (id)
  • Irish: trampailín m
  • Italian: trampolino elastico m
  • Japanese: トランポリン (ja) (toranporin)
  • Kazakh: серіппе (serıppe), батут (batut)
  • Korean: 트램펄린 (teuraempeollin)
  • Kyrgyz: батут (batut)
  • Latin: desultorium n, trampolinum n (New Latin)
  • Latvian: batuts m
  • Lithuanian: batutas
  • Māori: tūraparapa, turapa
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: trampoline m Nynorsk: trampoline m
  • Plautdietsch: Hupsbad n
  • Polish: trampolina (pl) f, batut (pl) m
  • Portuguese: trampolim (pt) m, cama elástica f, pula-pula m
  • Romanian: trambulină (ro) f
  • Russian: бату́т (ru) m (batút)
  • Slovak: trampolína f
  • Slovene: trampolín m
  • Spanish: cama elástica f, brincolín m, trampolín (es) m, saltadero m
  • Swedish: studsmatta (sv) c, (technical) trampolin (sv) c
  • Tagalog: trampolin, trampolina
  • Tamil: வீழ்தடுப்புறை (vīḻtaṭuppuṟai)
  • Turkish: trambolin
  • Ukrainian: бату́т m (batút)
  • Vietnamese: giàn nhún, nghệ thuật nhún giàn
  • Welsh: trampolîn
looping or jumping instructions
  • Polish: trampolina (pl) f
indirection techniques

Verb

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trampoline (third-person singular simple present trampolines, present participle trampolining, simple past and past participle trampolined)

  1. (intransitive) To jump (as if) on a trampoline.
    • 2007, Zoe Sharp, First Drop‎[1], →ISBN, page 276:My heart trampolined into my throat as I watched Lonnie's grip tighten on the stock of his own shotgun []
    • 2008, Nick Webborn, Victoria Goosey-Tolfrey, “Spinal cord injury”, in John P. Buckley, Neil Spurway, Don MacLaren, editors, Exercise Physiology in Special Populations (Advanced in Sport and Exercise Science Series), Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, →ISBN, pages 317–318:It would be helpful if data collected on sporting-related activities more clearly identified if the injuries occurred in organized sport or recreational activity. For example, children trampolining unsupervised in the garden may be at a higher risk than those in a supervised class but the relative degrees of risk are not known.
  2. (transitive, programming) To rewrite (computer code) to use trampoline instructions. trampolined code

Derived terms

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  • trampoliner
  • trampolinist

References

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  1. ^ “trampoline, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “trampoline (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

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  • Trampoline (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Trampolining on Wikiversity.Wikiversity

Dutch

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Alternative forms

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  • trampolin (obsolete)
  • tremplin (obsolete)

Etymology

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Borrowed from either Italian trampolino or Spanish trampolín (itself from Italian).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌtrɑm.poːˈli.nə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: tram‧po‧li‧ne
  • Rhymes: -inə

Noun

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trampoline m (plural trampolines, no diminutive)

  1. a trampoline

See also

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  • springplank

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish trampolín or Italian trampolino. See also French tremplin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃.pɔ.lin/
  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)

Noun

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trampoline m (plural trampolines)

  1. (gymnastics) trampoline
  2. (programming) trampoline
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  • tremplin

Further reading

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  • “trampoline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:trampolineWikipedia no

Etymology

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From Italian trampolino.

Noun

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trampoline m (definite singular trampolinen, indefinite plural trampoliner, definite plural trampolinene)

  1. a trampoline

References

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  • “trampoline” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Italian trampolino.

Noun

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trampoline m (definite singular trampolinen, indefinite plural trampolinar, definite plural trampolinane)

  1. a trampoline

References

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  • “trampoline” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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