trampoline

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Jumping on a mini-trampoline is a great, low stress workout.

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  1. noun A strong, taut sheet, usually of canvas, attached with springs to a metal frame and used for gymnastic springing and tumbling.

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  • Jump on a mini-trampoline (highly recommended during tv commercials), do rapid standing long jumps, rapid standing high jumps, jumping jacks, and jumping rope. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • High winds early Thursday morning lifted this trampoline onto a neighbor's roof in the 1800 block of E. Oak Avenue leaving it stranded until electric crews could turn off the power as the trampoline was caught on the house's incoming electrical line.
  • There are rope courses, flying and static trapeze, trampoline, aerial silks, medieval sword fighting, acrobatic yoga and professional aerial and acrobatic shows. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Out back it's a trampoline, and bikes and surfboards all lined in a row, ready for blended-family adventure. —  The Seattle Times
  • The mini-trampoline is unique in the fact that it is able to prove a strenuous workout, but also go easy on joints and cartilage in the body. —  Article Source
 

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  1. Spanish trampolín and Italian trampolino (Italian, from Spanish), from tràmpoli, stilts, of Germanic origin.
 

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