Crossword clues for pogo stick
pogo stick
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1921; see pogo.
Wiktionary
n. A toy, used for hopping up and down on, consisting of a pole with a T-bar handle at one end, and spring-loaded footpads on the other.
WordNet
n. plaything consisting of a pole with foot rests and a strong spring; propelled by jumping
Wikipedia
A pogo stick is a device for jumping off the ground in a standing position, through the aid of a spring, or new high performance technologies, often used as a toy, exercise equipment or extreme sports instrument. It led to an extreme sport named extreme pogo or "Xpogo".
It consists of a pole with a handle at the top and footrests near the bottom, and a spring located somewhere along the pole. The spring joins two sections of the pole, which extends below the footpads.
The jumper places his feet on the footpads while balancing on the pole, then jumps up or down with a bending action of the knees to add or subtract energy in the spring. When the spring is at full compression or extension, the jumper is lifted by the recoil of the spring, being launched several inches or feet into the air. This process is repeated to maintain a periodic bounce.
The pogo stick can be steered by shifting one's weight off the centerline of the spring in the desired horizontal direction thus producing horizontal locomotion.
Usage examples of "pogo stick".
He sees himself crossing the George Washington Bridge on a pogo stick, so he goes jumping away.
As far as I can discover, pogo, or the pogo stick,-which was invented in 1922, is a stilt with a spring on which the player jumps about.
He felt as if he had been strapped to some madman's jet-powered pogo stick.
An astronaut jumping on a pogo stick on the moon can do all sorts of things that are impossible to do on earth.
When you find him, he will tell you of some elaborate ruse that induced him to be on a pogo stick at this time and this place.
Randy would get more respect if he went to work on a pogo stick with a propeller beanie on his head.
Or rather, if a mouse were bouncing up and down on your boots on a little pogo stick.
He wasn't a mouth-breather, not the kind of jerk always hopping along on his erection as if it were a pogo stick.