Usually means: Jumping over bar using pole.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word pole vault:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. pole vault: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pole-vault, pole vault, the pole vault: Merriam-Webster
  3. pole vault: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pole vault: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pole-vault, pole-vault, pole vault, the pole vault: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pole vault: Vocabulary.com
  7. pole-vault: Wordnik
  8. the pole vault: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pole-vault, pole vault: Wiktionary
  10. pole-vault, pole vault: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pole vault: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pole-vault, pole vault: Dictionary.com
  13. Pole Vault, Pole-vault, Pole vault: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pole vault: Rhymezone
  15. pole vault: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pole vault: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pole-vault, pole vault: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pole-vault, pole vault: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pole Vault, Pole vault: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pole vault)

noun:  (athletics) a jumping event contested in track and field which requires an athlete to carry a fiberglass pole down a runway, plant the pole into a vaulting box and vault over a fiberglass bar, landing on a matted pit

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