springboard
sāpringābawrd
- n a flexible board for jumping upward
- n a beginning from which an enterprise is launched
he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own
- In May she didn't even make the finals of a springboard event.
- A bucktoothed, towheaded 11-year-old named Mary Hoerger won the springboard diving championship.
- EVENTS Springboard and synchronized springboard TECHNIQUE Difficult dives are Fu's forte.