vaulting-horse

When we had finished beginners 'lessons, we could do a handspring, and somersault forward or back, and some of us could run at the vaulting-horse and swing ourselves over straight-standing on our hands.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

They made a vaulting-horse with covered-in sides and parked it every day by the warning wire in exactly the same place.

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

There were single-sticks and foils on the wall, dumb-bells, Indian-clubs, a parallel-bar, and a vaulting-horse stowed away in another part of the room.

The Hero of Garside School

If an indoor area sufficient for basket-ball and a room suited to club meetings can be had, the initial apparatus for winter work need not exceed a parallel bar, a vaulting-horse, and three floor mats in addition to the basket-ball equipment.

The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work Allan Hoben

They came up the stairs, and put down and bolted the cellar door, and moved upon it with great difficulty the parallel bars with their iron supports, from the gymnasium, and several 25-pound dumb-bells, as well as the heavy vaulting-horse.

The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

"Do, Mr. Leith," said Mr.. Clarke, getting up from the hard chair, and standing close to the medicine ball with her back to the vaulting-horse.

In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Hogan, Swayne, Stalky, Perowne, and Ansell were deep in consultation by the vaulting-horse, Stalky as usual laying down the law.

Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

Only the gaunt parallel bars, and idle swings, and melancholy vaulting-horse.

The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

A wooden vaulting-horse with the stuffing would have been expensive: they abandoned the idea.

Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

In this one he appeared as a colonel of cuirassiers, on a vaulting-horse, his eyes still smaller, his mouth open, and his hair straight.

Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850