Definitions for gymnastics
dʒɪmˈnæs tɪksgym·nas·tics

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. gymnastics, gymnastic exercise(noun)

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

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1. gymnastics(n.)

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

Wiktionary(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. gymnastics(Noun)

   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.

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

2. gymnastics(Noun)

   Complex intellectual or artistic exercises or feats of physical agility.

   His mental gymnastics are legendary.

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

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Gymnastics(noun)

   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.

U.S. National Library of Medicine(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Gymnastics

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

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   Karen

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   Veena

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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. Katerina Stefanidi:

   The IOC put us in a difficult position. How can we train in these conditions and these health risks, the stadiums have been closed for a week. Tomorrow we may get a special permit to get in and train. But how can you train there, touching the same equipment and surfaces. And what about team sports, or gymnastics, or swimming.

2. 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_.

3. Lisa Ganser:

   USAG failed at this, uSA Gymnastics had enough information, I think, to have done something about this. It didn’t have to happen to my daughter, and it didn’t have to happen to other little girls.

4. Hisashi Mizutori:

   What's unique is beauty and youthful vigor. There's a definite youthful energy, japanese gymnastics has always been known for its beauty, and now it's a matter of combining these well.

5. Nadia Comaneci:

   There will be a big hole in my stomach (on Sunday) when I won’t see my team, it’s like someone important is missing from a party because you can’t imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

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