trampoline

trampoline

See also: Trampoline

English

A boy jumping on a trampoline

Etymology

From Spanish trampolín and/or Italian trampolino; in English, a genericized trademark based on the Spanish word trademarked in 1936.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹæmpəˈliːn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæmpəliːn/

Noun

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

   Synonym: trampolining

3. (programming) Any of a variety of looping or jumping instructions in specific programming languages.

Translations

gymnastic and recreational device

Arabic: مِنَطَّة‎ f (minaṭṭa) Hijazi Arabic: نطنيطة‎ f (nuṭnēṭa) Armenian: բատուտ (hy) (batut), ցատկացանց (hy) (cʿatkacʿancʿ) Bashkir: батут (batut) Bulgarian: батут m (batut) Catalan: llit elàstic 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 (trampolíno) Hebrew: טְרַמְפּוֹלִינָה‎ (he) Hungarian: trambulin Icelandic: trampólín n Ido: trampolino (io) Indonesian: trampolin (id) Irish: trampailín m Italian: trampolino elastico m Japanese: トランポリン (toranporin) Kazakh: серіппе (kk) (serıppe), батут (batut) Korean: 트램펄린 (teuraempeollin) Kyrgyz: батут (batut) Latin: desultorium n, trampolinum n (New Latin) Lithuanian: batutas Maori: tūraparapa, turapa Norwegian: Bokmål: trampoline m Nynorsk: trampoline m Plautdietsch: Hupsbad n Polish: trampolina (pl) f, batut 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 Swedish: trampolin (sv) c, studsmatta (sv) c Tagalog: trampolin, trampolina Tamil: வீழ்தடுப்புறை (vīḻtaṭuppuṟai) Turkish: trambolin Ukrainian: бату́т m (batút) Vietnamese: giàn nhún, nghệ thuật nhún giàn Welsh: trampolîn

programming tool

Polish: trampolina (pl) f

Verb

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, →ISBN, page 276:

     My heart trampolined into my throat as I watched Lonnie's grip tighten on the stock of his own shotgun […]

2. (transitive, programming) To rewrite (computer code) to use trampoline instructions.

   trampolined code

Derived terms

• trampoliner
• trampolinist

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• trampolin (obsolete)
• tremplin (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtrɑm.poːˈli.nə/

• Audio

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

Noun

trampoline m (plural trampolines)

1. A trampoline.

See also

• springplank

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.pɔ.lin/

Noun

trampoline m (plural trampolines)

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

Further reading

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian trampolino.

Noun

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

1. a trampoline

References

• “trampoline” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian trampolino.

Noun

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

1. a trampoline

References

• “trampoline” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.