side horse

side horse
noun
a gymnastic horse with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright handles (pommels) near the center; held upright by two steel supports, one at each end
Syn: ↑pommel horse
Hypernyms: ↑horse, ↑gymnastic horse
Part Meronyms: ↑pommel

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noun
: a piece of apparatus made with a leather-covered cylindrical body having two pommels on top near the center, held parallel to the floor by two uprights attached to a steel frame and adjustable in height, and used in gymnastics especially for vaulting — called also horse; compare long horse

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Gymnastics.
[1930-35]

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side horse,
a gymnasium apparatus for jumping or vaulting exercises.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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