trampoline

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]

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɹæmpəˈliːn/, /ˈtɹæmpəˌliːn/

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trampoline (countable and uncountable, plural trampolines)

2. 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: rebound tumbler (obsolete, uncommon)

   • [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).]

3. (uncountable) A competitive sport in which athletes are judged on routines of tricks performed on a trampoline.

   Synonym: trampolining

4. (programming) Any of a variety of looping or jumping instructions in specific programming languages.
5. (programming) Any of a variety of indirection techniques in specific programming languages.

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

• trampoliner
• trampolinist

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

• trampolin (obsolete)
• tremplin (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌtrɑm.poːˈli.nə/

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• Hyphenation: tram‧po‧li‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

trampoline m (plural trampolines)

1. a trampoline

• springplank

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

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.pɔ.lin/

trampoline m (plural trampolines)

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

• tremplin

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

From Italian trampolino.

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

1. a trampoline

• “trampoline” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Italian trampolino.

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

1. a trampoline

• “trampoline” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.