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Definition of Pole jumper
1. Noun. An athlete who jumps over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pole Jumper
Literary usage of Pole jumper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Athletics and Football by Montague Shearman (1887)
"The pole-jumper is thus usually a light-weight, but this is not the case with
Ray, who is a well-shaped man of decidedly heavy build. ..."
2. A/S/L: Yearbook Academy of Architecture Amsterdam/Maastricht by Laurens ten Kate (2002)
"... to get over that pole as a virtuoso pole-jumper. ln this case the answer to
the question of how is the specific pole-jumping technique (firmitas). ..."
3. The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct by Alexander Sutherland (1898)
"... the little thing would grip the edge with its fore claws, and then, though
unable to stand alone, it would vault like a professional pole-jumper, ..."
4. Rural Life in America: Or, Summer and Winter in the Country by Henry Carmer Wetmore (1856)
"At last the vehicles were loaded, some fifteen in number, of all shapes, styles,
and sizes, from the homemade hickory pole jumper to the great omnibus sled ..."
5. Prix de Rome 2002: fotografie, film & video by Arno Haijtema, Mark Nash, Sandra Smallenburg (2002)
"For a split second we feel what it's like to stand beneath the cross bar as a
pole jumper leaps into space, orto crash from a great height into a lake. ..."
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