Gymnasts' equipment

Usage examples of horizontal bar.

I, who on entering the lobby had unsuspectingly cast a glance through the open door of the adjoining gymnasium, caught sight of the leather horse, the climbing bars, the climbing rope, and the horrible horizontal bar, crying out as always for a giant swing.

Never did Brunies make a boy tremble under the horizontal bar, suffer on the parallel bars, or weep on hot climbing ropes.

They had previously seen trapeze artistes do nothing more than the twists and flips and swingovers possible on any gymnasium's horizontal bar&mdash.

The puzzle is to arrange them in the form of a cross, exactly in the way shown in the illustration, so that the pips in the vertical bar and in the horizontal bar add up alike.

The right foot is the horizontal bar of the letter T, and the left foot, the vertical.

Flaminius then locked one on the girl's right wrist and then, her arms through the bars, bent her arms back, put the other bracelet around one of the bars in the gate, above the horizontal bar at the top of the gate, and, on the outside of the gate, about her other wrist, the left, snapped shut the second bracelet, so that her hands were now braceleted outside the gate, at its top, that she might be, on the inside, held cruelly against the bars.

Too, it is usually formed not of spears but of brooms, brought from the conquering city, and the horizontal bar is hung with dangling slave beads.

The red horizontal bar, or bars, as the case is, is commonly associated with the Kaiila, the Cutthroat tribe.

This cross-piece or horizontal bar prevented the spear from going more than eighteen inches into his chest.

Water clocks, sand clocks, solar clocks propped against the walls, but especially mechanical clocks arrayed on various shelves and chests, clocks moved by the slow descent of weights and counterweights, by wheels that bit into other wheels, as those bit into still others, until the last wheel nipped the two unequal blades of a vertical staff, causing it to make two half-revolutions in opposing directions, its indecent wiggle moving, as balance, a horizontal bar fixed at its upper extrem­.

Kasyx glanced up at the glowing horizontal bar inside his helmet that told him how much power he had left.

Grip the handles on the horizontal bar and twist the bar the direction you want to go.

Lea ran her hands across the pedestal keypad, and the photo diminished slightly in size as a horizontal bar of text appeared on the right side of the screen.

Michael looked at the far wall and saw a long, horizontal bar mounted beneath the candles - a practice bar for dancers.

Whipping and vibrating, they lashed themselves - lashed him - to the cross's upright and horizontal bar.