pole vaulter
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- noun
- /poʊl ˈvɔːltər/
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- The competition featured a talented pole vaulter who cleared six meters easily.
- pole vaulter Bubka
- former pole vaulter
I was a pole vaulter in in high school.
- I was a pole vaulter in in high school.
- So if you think of a pole vaulter, the key thing the pole vaulter has to do is get its body to the right place when the pole gets stuck.
- Speaking of, shall we say, the bathing suit area, take a second here to check out Japanese pole vaulter Hiroki Ogita's failed attempt at qualifying.
- For example, there are humans that are pole vaulters, philosophers, airplane pilots, poets, pianists, and that's just the piece.
Examples
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Gold medalist Amy Chow made the switch from gymnastics, becoming first a successful pole vaulter before becoming a national-level diver.
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A couple of years ago, my elite pole vaulter husband, Levi Keller, and I took a leap of faith and moved to Seattle, WA, to pursue our athletic dreams.
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I was a pole vaulter in in high school.
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Did you ever hear of a rich pole vaulter?
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I have been following with interest the progress towards London 2012 of Olympic pole vaulter Steve Hooker over the past few months.
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Both are pole vaulters on West Linn's track team, Hanchett said.
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The Kennedys owned the Greenstream Farm, and their son Darryl was our best pole-vaulter.
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Top pole-vaulters weigh about 80 kg and can clear a bar 6 m off the ground to attain a maximum potential energy of about 5 kJ.
Academic text (1999) -
Figure 5. In 1991, Ukrainian Sergei Bubka became the first pole vaulter to clear 20 feet (6.1 m).
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They include a 100-year-old tennis champion, an 86-year-old pole-vaulter, a team of basketball grandmothers, and two brothers who have maintained an 80-year passion for swimming.
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Synonyms
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An athlete who uses a long pole to jump over a high bar
A person who uses a long pole to jump over a high bar in sport
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'pole vaulter' is directly compositional: 'pole' (a long stick) combined with 'vaulter' (an athlete who vaults) yields an athlete who vaults using a pole. This follows regular English noun-compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
The name pole vaulter shows a simple picture: an athlete plants a long, flexible pole and uses it to vault, that is, to jump, over a high bar. So a pole vaulter is 'an athlete who jumps over a bar using a pole'.