- a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- a flexible board used as a takeoff in vaulting, tumbling, etc., to increase the height of leaps.
- something that supplies the impetus or conditions for a beginning, change, or progress; a point of departure: a lecture to serve as a springboard for a series of seminars.
- to impel or launch on or as if on a springboard.
- a flexible board, usually projecting low over the water, used for diving
- a similar board used for gaining height or momentum in gymnastics
- a board inserted into the trunk of a tree at some height above the ground on which a lumberjack stands to chop down the tree
- anything that serves as a point of departure or initiation
