Definitions for gymnastics
dʒɪmˈnæs tɪksgym·nas·tics

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. gymnastics, gymnastic exercisenoun

   a sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility

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1. gymnasticsnoun

   Feats demonstrating a quick mental agility; as, mental gymnastics, verbal gymnastics.

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1. gymnasticsnoun

   A sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness.

   Gymnastics was a significant part of the physical education curriculum.

2. gymnasticsnoun

   Complex intellectual or artistic exercises or feats of physical agility.

   His mental gymnastics are legendary.

3. Etymology: From γυμνασία, from γυμνός, because Greek athletes were training naked.

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1. Gymnastics

   Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills. The most common form of competitive gymnastics is artistic gymnastics (AG), which consists of, for women (WAG), the events floor, vault, uneven bars, and beam; and for men (MAG), the events floor, vault, rings, pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. The governing body for competition in gymnastics throughout the world is the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Eight sports are governed by the FIG, which include gymnastics for all, men's and women's artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining (including double mini-trampoline), tumbling, acrobatic, aerobic and parkour. Disciplines not currently recognized by FIG include wheel gymnastics, aesthetic group gymnastics, TeamGym, and Mallakhamba. Participants in gymnastics-related sports include young children, recreational-level athletes, and competitive athletes at all levels of skill.

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1. gymnastics

   Gymnastics is a competitive sport that involves a combination of physical strength, flexibility, agility, balance, coordination, and endurance. It consists of a wide range of exercises and activities such as floor routines, vaulting, and work on parallel bars, high bars, rings, and balance beams. The sport also requires the ability to perform complex movements and sequences, often involving flips, splits, and jumps. It is governed internationally by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG).

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1. Gymnasticsnoun

   athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character

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1. Gymnastics

   Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, power, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the competitive gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. Each country has its own national governing body affiliated to FIG. Competitive artistic gymnastics is the best known of the gymnastic sports. It typically involves the women's events of uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and vault. Men's events are floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and high bar. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills. Other gymnastic disciplines include: rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining, Team Gym, tumbling, aerobic gymnastics and acrobatic gymnastics. Participants can include children as young as 20 months old doing kindergym and children's gymnastics, recreational gymnasts of ages 5 and up, competitive gymnasts at varying levels of skill, and world class athletes.

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1. Gymnastics

   Systematic physical exercise. This includes calisthenics, a system of light gymnastics for promoting strength and grace of carriage.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gymnastics in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gymnastics in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of gymnastics in a Sentence

1. Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe:

   It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.

2. Matthias Hangst/Getty Images:

   We women all want to feel good in our skin, in the sport of gymnastics it gets harder and harder as you grow out of your child's body. As a little girl I didn't see the tight gym outfits as such a big deal. But when puberty began, when my period came, I began feeling increasingly uncomfortable.

3. Sunisa Lee:

   I just told myself to take a deep breath and do what I normally do, because this is a time where I had to just my gymnastics do its thing.

4. Ben Sasse:

   Every public official has a responsibility to tell the truth, all the clever arguments and rhetorical gymnastics in the world won't change the fact that this January 6th effort is designed to disenfranchise millions of Americans simply because they voted for someone in a different party. We ought to be better than that. If we normalize this, we're going to turn American politics into a Hatfields and McCoys endless blood feud -- a house hopelessly divided.

5. The Greek pole vaulter:

   It's unbelievable. What about team sports that have to train together? What about swimming? What about gymnastics that they touch the same objects? There is zero consideration of the risk they are putting us in right now.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gymnastics
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=gymnastics
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gymnastics
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gymnastics
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=gymnastics
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gymnastics