Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which vaults; a leaper; a tumbler; a dancer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who
vaults orleaps
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an athlete who jumps over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole
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Examples
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Standing at the end of the runway, the vaulter is ready with chemical potential energy in his muscles.
USATODAY.com - Pole vaulting: Doing the 'seemingly impossible' 2003
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"I guess I'll always be known as the vaulter in the helmet, but hopefully now I'll be known primarily as just a good vaulter," Stevenson said Saturday at the Modesto (Calif.)
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The couple also met with some Olympic hopefuls who had been invited, including pole vaulter Holly Bleasdale.
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Minutes later the pole vaulter Steve Lewis was taken to hospital for x-rays on a suspected fractured left thumb after his pole broke early on in the competition.
Mo Farah hits the heights as new methods pay off in Birmingham 2011
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In today's photos, families gather outside of a children's hospital in China, paragliders sail through the sky in California, a pole vaulter takes a leap in Germany, and more.
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At 20, Gaede married Kris Lingelser, whom she described as a pot-smoking Icelandic pole vaulter.
it might as well hurt intertribal 2010
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At the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, Russian pole vaulter Dmitry Starodubtsev was attempting a vault 18.9 feet high when things went a little bit awry.
Dmitry Starodubtsev's Pole Snaps At World Championships: Russian Pole Vaulter Takes A Tumble (VIDEO) 2011
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Olympic pole vaulter Bob Seagren won the first Superstars, a show created by TV executive Barry Frank and figure skating's Dick Button after they had debated which sports had the best athletes.
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Even after he dispatched Andreas Haider-Maurer Tuesday in the first round of the U.S. Open, Bubka faced a round of questions about his father, the legendary pole vaulter who has the same name.
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At 20, Gaede married Kris Lingelser, whom she described as a pot-smoking Icelandic pole vaulter.
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