Wiktionary
n. Alternative name for tai chi.
WordNet
n. a Chinese system of slow meditative physical exercise designed for relaxation and balance and health [syn: t'ai chi, tai chi, t'ai chi chuan]
Usage examples of "tai chi chuan".
Both of them got up at the same time in the morning, early, and she did her tai chi chuan.
Five minutes later the island across the channel became suffused with a rose light, and the man under the looking-glass tree lifted his arms, beginning the movements of tai chi chuan.
He remembered him as a gentle, cultured man who was a master at tai chi chuan.
In the pale light of dawn they were into Tai Chi Chuan, slow, languorous movements that increased a sense of balance and limb coordination not unlike ballet.
She was in the midst of a complex exercise, but all suggestion of Tai Chi Chuan left her when she dropped her arms and one outstretched leg and stood stockstill beside a dead dog, watching burdened Jack come down the hill toward her.
Jacob stepped back and began to move his body slowly in the pattern of relaxing positions known as Tai Chi Chuan.
It is called Tai Chi Chuan, and looks like a kind of imitation combat in slow motion, with no opponent.