A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs. People bounce on trampolines for recreational and competitive purposes.
The fabric on which users bounce (commonly known as a 'bounce mat' or 'trampoline bed') is not elastic in itself; the elasticity is provided by the springs which connect it to the frame.
It is said that a kind of trampolining was done by the Inuit peop...
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A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs. People bounce on trampolines for recreational and competitive purposes.
The fabric on which users bounce (commonly known as a 'bounce mat' or 'trampoline bed') is not elastic in itself; the elasticity is provided by the springs which connect it to the frame.
It is said that a kind of trampolining was done by the Inuit people who used to toss each other into the air on a walrus skin, something like the sheet used by firemen to catch people jumping out of burning buildings. There also is some evidence of people in Europe having been tossed into the air by a number of people holding a blanket; Mak in the Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play and Sancho Panza in Don Quixote are both subjected to blanketing – however, these are clearly non-voluntary, non-recreational instances of quasi-judicial, mob-administered punishment. The 19th century circus poster on which the...
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