Bungee cord, also called shock cord, an engineered stretchable cord
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Bungee chair, a type of office or lounge chair made with bungee cords
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Upon graduating from Deakin University with a BA degree in Drama, Cousins took on a 50-word guest role on Neighbours as an Attendant in a scene where established character Billy Kennedy went bungee jumping.
Shocks were absorbed by a combination of oleo-pneumatic and bungee elastic components.
These were bungee sprung, though there were plans for oleo dampers.
Several major movies have featured bungee jumps, most famously the opening sequence of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye in which Bond makes a jump over the edge of a dam in Russia (in reality the dam is in Switzerland: Verzasca Dam, and the jump was genuine, not an animated special effect).
Contestants bungee jumped off the dam as a Roadblock task in the first episode of the 14th season of The Amazing Race.
The celebs are thrown in the deep end straight away, with a bungee jump from Auckland Harbour Bridge.
It was also used in early aircraft (1910 or before), such as the Sopwith and Fokker, usually with rubber bungee and no damping.