# trampoline
## English
### 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: /ˌtɹæmpəˈliːn/, /ˈtɹæmpəˌliːn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

trampoline (countable and uncountable, plural trampolines)
* 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).]
* (uncountable) A competitive sport in which athletes are judged on routines of tricks performed on a trampoline.
    Synonym: trampolining
* (programming) Any of a variety of looping or jumping instructions in specific programming languages.
* (programming) Any of a variety of indirection techniques in specific programming languages.

#### Derived terms

* double mini trampoline
* trampoline effect

#### Translations
### Verb

trampoline (third-person singular simple present trampolines, present participle trampolining, simple past and past participle trampolined)
* (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 […]
** 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.
* (transitive, programming) To rewrite (computer code) to use trampoline instructions.
    trampolined code

#### Derived terms

* trampoliner
* trampolinist

### References

* ↑ “trampoline, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “trampoline (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### 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: /ˌtrɑm.poːˈli.nə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tram‧po‧li‧ne
* Rhymes: -inə

### Noun

trampoline m (plural trampolines)
* a trampoline

### See also

* springplank

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁɑ̃.pɔ.lin/

### Noun

trampoline m (plural trampolines)
* (gymnastics) trampoline
* (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)
* 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)
* a trampoline

### References

* “trampoline” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.