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pole vault

pole vault noun: a jumping event contested in track and field which requires an athlete to carry a fiberglass pole down a runway, plant the pole into a vaulting box and vault over a fiberglass bar, landing on a matted pit.

Noun

pole vault (plural pole vaults)

  1. a jumping event contested in track and field which requires an athlete to carry a fiberglass pole down a runway, plant the pole into a vaulting box and vault over a fiberglass bar, landing on a matted pit

pole vault meaning in Kannada, Tagalog and Vietnamese

pole vault in Kannada

ಕೋಲು ನೆಗೆತ, ಗಣೆನೆಗೆತ

pole vault in Tagalog

jumping event where an athlete vaults over a high bar with the aid of a pole
baliksuwa, luksong-tikin

pole vault in Vietnamese

jumping event where an athlete vaults over a high bar with the aid of a pole
nhảy sào

Forms of pole vault

pluralpole vaults

Questions about pole vault

What does pole vault mean?
Pole vault means a jumping event contested in track and field which requires an athlete to carry a fiberglass pole down a runway, plant the pole into a vaulting box and vault over a fiberglass bar, landing on a matted pit.
What is pole vault in Kannada?
Pole vault in Kannada is ಕೋಲು ನೆಗೆತ, ಗಣೆನೆಗೆತ. See Pole vault meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is pole vault?
Pole vault is a noun.
What is the plural of pole vault?
The plural of pole vault is pole vaults.

Words near pole vault in the dictionary

  1. pole smoker
  2. pole smokers
  3. pole star
  4. pole stars
  5. pole up one's ass
  6. pole vault
  7. pole vaulter
  8. pole vaulters
  9. pole vaulting
  10. pole vaults
  11. pole weapon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pole vault (page history and authors); pole vault (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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