vaulting

Related to vaulting: vaulting horse

vault into (something or some place)

1. To attain, achieve, or accomplish something with great alacrity and vigor. With the overwhelming success of its new home console, the former toy maker vaulted into a position of dominance in the video game industry.
2. To propel someone to some point or state of success or prosperity, especially very suddenly or rapidly. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "vault" and "over." His revolutionary invention vaulted the scientist into fame and fortune beyond his wildest dreams.
See also: vault

vault over (someone or something)

To bound or leap over someone or something, especially by using one's hands to propel oneself upward. The robber vaulted over the fence and disappeared down an alleyway. The soccer superstar actually managed to vault over the defensive player, regain control of the ball, and send an amazing shot into the net.
See also: over, vault

vaulting school

obsolete A house of prostitution; a brothel. ("Vaulting" being an allusion to sexual intercourse.) To such a depth of degradation he hast fallen, that his abode hast been a vaulting school for a fortnight past.
See also: school, vaulting
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • vault
  • vault into
  • vault into (something or some place)
  • go to any length(s) to (do something)
  • whip out
  • Many are called but few are chosen
  • many are called, but few are chosen
  • for the long haul
  • reach for the moon
  • aim for the sky
References in periodicals archive
Following the SNEC competition this combination headed to Saumur, France for the first International Vaulting competition of 2019 to take part in a competitive Pas de deux class.
Caption Wee County Vaulters Kerri Brylka and Katie Henderson vaulting on Captain Jack at Saumur, France
"Our coaches are very helpful," said sophomore Stevie Cormier, who added with a chuckle, "Pole vaulting really lifts me up."
Keeping a journal and using it to analyze what works and what doesn't, takes a lot of the guesswork out of vaulting. It will make you a better and safer jumper.
If you think of track and field, in general, and pole vaulting, in particular, as the quintessential example of an individual (non-team) sport, you are wrong.
You can borrow the three principles that Coach Smith used to become the winningest NCAA basketball coach in history, and apply them to your pole vaulting. They can make anyone much, much, better pole vaulters.
Rebecca Norval finishing in 3rd place in femaile individual senior 3* class vaulting on W.H.Bentley lunged by Hannah Eccles.
The competition was the final Great Britain selection trial for the Junior European Equestrian Vaulting Championships in Kaposvar, Hungary this week and also for the World Equestrian Games to be held in Tryon, North Carolina in September.
Rebecca Norval is Scotland's sole vaulting representative in the Great Britain squad for the World Equestrian Games and will compete in the Individual Female 3* competition.
According to IDC, the overall market for outsourcing services (such as SANs and electronic vaulting) is estimated to grow to $34 billion in 2002.
Advances in data replication and security technologies, combined with reduced bandwidth costs allow managed service providers to offer online backup, recovery and electronic vaulting services to businesses who have limited IT support for backup.
These trends represent an opportunity to provide online backup, recovery and electronic vaulting services as a value-add service that can be easily sold and delivered through existing channels to their current client base.
On actual vaulting days, a split schedule will work well.
The more experienced vaulters (male & female) could warm up and work on motor-skill drills led by the best pole-vault technician (squad leader), not necessarily the best vaulter, while the novice vaulters could vault with the vault coach/spotter on the actual vaulting mat.
One of America's top track coaches, Don Hood not only won 10 NCAA II championships over the past decade and sent eight athletes to the 1988 Olympics and five to the 1992 Olympics, but established a large reputation as a pole vault guru - having coached more 18[feet] vaulters than anyone else has done, two 19[feet] vaulters (Billy Olson and Tim Bright), and seven 17[feet] high school vaulters - while coaching at Abilene Christian University and directing the famous "Over the Top" vaulting camps.