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  2. Sprung floor - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park features a sprung floor. A sprung floor is a floor that absorbs shocks, giving it a softer feel. Such floors are considered the best kind for dance and indoor sports and physical education, [1] and can enhance performance and greatly reduce injuries. Modern sprung floors are supported by foam backing or ...

  3. Floor (gymnastics) - Wikipedia

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    The floor exercise (English abbreviation FX) is the event performed on the floor, in both women's and men's artistic gymnastics (WAG and MAG). The same floor is used for WAG FX and MAG FX, but rules and scoring differ; most obviously, a WAG FX routine is synchronised to a piece of recorded dance music , whereas MAG FX has no musical accompaniment .

  4. Floating floor - Wikipedia

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    Detail of floating floor over joists. A floating floor is a floor that does not need to be nailed or glued to the subfloor. [1] The term floating floor refers to the installation method, but is often used synonymously with laminate flooring. [2] It is applied now to other coverings such as floating tile systems and vinyl flooring in a domestic ...

  5. Performance surface - Wikipedia

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    You would find this most commonly used for public events, e.g. a gym hall used for a graduation ceremony or a club dance floor. A step above a wooden surface is the sprung floor. A sprung floor absorbs shock and can enhance performance and greatly reduce injuries.

  6. Spring (device) - Wikipedia

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    A flat spring fixed only at one end like a cantilever, while the free-hanging end takes the load. Coil spring Also known as a helical spring. A spring (made by winding a wire around a cylinder) is of two types: Tension or extension springs are designed to become longer under load. Their turns (loops) are normally touching in the unloaded ...

  7. Sprung - Wikipedia

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    Sprung may refer to: Sprung rhythm a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech; Sprung mass (or sprung weight) the portion of the vehicle's total mass that is supported above the suspension; Sprung floor, a floor that absorbs shocks

  8. Harlequinade - Wikipedia

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    He developed the character of Harlequin into a mischievous magician who was easily able to evade Pantaloon and his servants to woo Columbine. Harlequin used his magic batte or "slapstick" to transform the scene from the pantomime into the harlequinade and to magically change the settings to various locations during the chase scene. [3] [6]

  9. Self-cleaning floor - Wikipedia

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    The Smart-Floor is one of the six UK designs that won the top 100 designs in Electrolux Design Lab 2013. [8] Another approach to self-cleaning floors involves the use of central vacuum systems beneath micro-perforated raised floor tiles. These systems create a small negative pressure to automatically collect all dust and dirt.