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Webster 1913 Edition
Springboard
Spring′boardˊ
(-bōrdˊ)
, Noun.
An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
Definition 2025
springboard
springboard
English

Diving springboard
Springboard in gymnastics
Noun
springboard (plural springboards)
- A diving board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform, used for diving into water.
- (gymnastics) A small platform on springs and usually hinged at one end, used to launch or vault onto other equipment.
- (figuratively) Anything that gives a person or thing energy or impulse, or that serves to launch or begin something.
- The opportunity served a springboard to their success.
Translations
flexible diving board
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platform on springs used in gymnastics
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figuratively: anything that launches or provides impulse
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Verb
springboard (third-person singular simple present springboards, present participle springboarding, simple past and past participle springboarded)
- (transitive) To launch or propel as if from a springboard.
- 2007 October 4, Jennifer Steinhauer, “In Ballot Fight, California Gets a Taste of ’08”, in New York Times:
- Such a change could amount to a seismic shift in the nation’s electoral dynamics, potentially springboarding a Republican into the White House, and the possibility has animated hopeful Republicans and fearful Democrats.
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