The sport of performing pole vaults, especially in a competition(noun)
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Use "pole-vaulting" in a sentence
"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."
"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."