(gymnastics) An apparatus featuring a flat, large, and cushioned surface almost parallel to the floor sloping downward at the end closest to the springboard.

gymnastics, acrobatics and/or dance on horseback, practiced both competitively or non-competitively

(architecture) cross vaults generally

plural of virgin vault

(colloquial, humorous) A women-only college dormitory.

plural of vaulting table

A facility for accepting human waste, typically through personal use via urination and defecation, where the waste is directed into an extractable vault tank below the access port used by the person needing facilities. When reaching capacity, the vault is removed from underground and moved to a region with a sewage processing system, where it is emptied, to be reimplanted later. Vault toilets typically take the form of an outhouse.

(architecture) A vault resulting from the intersection of two barrel-vaults crossing in a right angle. Its thrusts are concentrated along the groins or arrises and eventually at the four corners

plural of double barrel vault

With a vaulted structure or appearance.