Crossword clues for teeterboard
Wiktionary
n. 1 A seesaw; teetertotter. 2 A similar board used by acrobats that sends a human into the air when another human jumps onto the opposite end.
WordNet
n. a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end [syn: seesaw, teeter-totter, tilting board, dandle board]
Wikipedia
The teeterboard (or Korean plank) is an acrobatic apparatus that resembles a playground seesaw. The strongest teeterboards are made of oak (usually 9 feet in length). The board is divided in the middle by a fulcrum made of welded steel. At each end of the board is a square padded area, where a performer stands on an incline before being catapulted into the air. The well-trained flyer performs various aerial somersaults, landing on padded mats, a human pyramid, a specialized landing chair, stilts, or even a Russian bar.
The teeterboard is manned by a team of flyers, catchers, spotters and pushers. Some members of the team perform more than one acrobatic role. In the early 1960s the finest teeterboard acts, trained in the Eastern Bloc countries, performed with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Korean-style teeterboard is a form of teeterboard where two performers jump vertically in place, landing back on the apparatus instead of dismounting onto a landing mat or human pyramid. Korean plank acts are featured in the Cirque du Soleil shows Corteo, Mystère, Koozå and Amaluna.
Hungarian board ( bascule hongroise) have a higher fulcrum, and the pushers jump from a height, for example, a tower.
Usage examples of "teeterboard".
Chinese stood side by side, bowed politely, then dragged the teeterboard to where Peggy was tethered, and began to jabber at Hannibal.
The Chinese were rehearsing with the teeterboard and Peggy, while Monday and Tuesday Simms waited to join in.
Her four big feet were still on the teeterboard, but her bulk leaned outward against the gunwale alongside her.
Instead, Monday, Quincy and the three Chinese cartwheeled into the pista, beckoned Brutus onto the teeterboard and, as she seesawed happily, did their poses and pyramids and leapfrogging on her back.
Between those sessions, Monday and Quincy worked on new routines with the three Chinese, the elephant and the teeterboard, and Sunday went doggedly on with her language lessons.
The dwarfs tried to coax the elephant to stamp on the raised end of the teeterboard while Vinod was sitting on the other end, but the elephant was taught to delay stamping on the teeterboard until the third time.
The dwarf is recovering from surgery, following the results of the Elephant on a Teeterboard item.