Definition of "pole-vaulting" []

• Present participle of pole-vault. (verb)
• The sport of performing pole vaults, especially in a competition (noun)

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• "After "Little Big Man" in 1971, Mr. Penn fell into something of a creative slough, his only output a short documentary on pole-vaulting at the 1972 Olympic Games."
• "* Previously: Prison offers inmates pole-vaulting lessons."
• "Aaron Yerk, a junior from Belvidere, Ill., who came to Ashford on a pole-vaulting scholarship, was similarly astounded to find out that there was an online school roughly 100 times the size of his student body."