trampoline

See also: Trampoline

English

A boy jumping on a trampoline (sense 1)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• double mini trampoline
• trampoline effect

Translations

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 (toranporin)
• Kazakh: серіппе (serıppe), батут (batut)
• Korean: 트램펄린 (teuraempeollin)
• Kyrgyz: батут (batut)
• Latin: desultorium n, trampolinum n (New Latin)
• Latvian: batuts m
• 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: 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

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

• trampoliner
• trampolinist

Further reading

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

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:

  (file)

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

Noun

trampoline m (plural trampolines)

1. a trampoline

See also

• springplank

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

Related terms

• tremplin

Further reading

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

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.

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.