diving board

plural diving boards · alternative diving-board

1. A springboard used for diving into water.

   The spring diving board is four feet above the water, but there is another diving board five feet higher than this one.

   1875, The Herald of Health, page 77

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   when a laminated wood diving board begins to split at the seams, there's just one thing to do: cut it apart and glue it back together.

   1961 May 28, Popular Science, volume 178, number 5, page 173

   A piece of equipment (e.g., a sport surface or a diving board) stores energy when deformed and releases this energy when the deformation restores.

   2000, Benno Maurus Nigg, Biomechanics and Biology of Movement, page 54