Possible Clues:

• Helpful item when it's time to bounce?
• Useful accessory for spring?
• Bouncy oriental MP bounces on this
• Acrobat's apparatus
• Gymnast's springboard
• Vagrant with old profession as a bouncer
• Olympics event since 2000
• Track crossing river one used to exercise on
• A performer's bound to be uplifted by it
• From Italian for ''springboard''