Definition of "vaulting-horse" [vaulting-horse]

• A wooden horse in a gymnasium for practice in vaulting. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When we had finished beginners 'lessons, we could do a handspring, and somersault forward or back, and some of us could run at the vaulting-horse and swing ourselves over straight-standing on our hands."
• "They made a vaulting-horse with covered-in sides and parked it every day by the warning wire in exactly the same place."
• "If an indoor area sufficient for basket-ball and a room suited to club meetings can be had, the initial apparatus for winter work need not exceed a parallel bar, a vaulting-horse, and three floor mats in addition to the basket-ball equipment."