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If you're nailing someone right after breaking up from a relationship, and you're doing them at least in part to make yourself feel better about the breakup, and as a tool to "get over" the person you broke up with...that is one kind of rebound relationship. This kind is really not very healthy.
If you like someone who's involved, they break up, and you swoop in and start dating the party you're interested in, that's another kind of rebound relationship. This kind can occasionally be healthy, but often isn't.
If someone specifically asks you to date them and have sex with them in order to spite the person from whom they just broke up, that's also a kind of rebound relationship. This kind is almost never healthy, but the sex is usually awesome.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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