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Sport involving displays of strength, balance and agility
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gymnastics
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility [syn: gymanstic exercise ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE mental ▪ I changed into my running clothes and did three miles while I went through the mental gymnastics of getting the case organized. ▪ None the less, great feats of mental gymnastics were per-formed to make ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
gymnastics \gym*nas"tics\ (j[i^]m*n[a^]s"t[i^]ks), n. Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises. Disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character. [fig.] Feats demonstrating a quick mental agility; as, mental gymnastics, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from gymnastic ; also see -ics .
Usage examples of gymnastics.
When he did knee-swings on the horizontal bar -- his form was miserable, but later he succeeded in doing two more than Hotten Sonntag, our gymnastics champion -- well, when Mahlke ground out his thirty-seven knee-swings, the medal tugged out of his gym shirt, and hurtled thirty-seven times around the squeaking horizontal bar, always in advance of his medium-brown hair.
The mods, likewise, are just extreme cases of psychological gymnastics and self-imposed walls that people have always used.
I delighted above all in the subtle gymnastics of the dance, and discovered a weakness for women with castanets, who reminded me of the region of Gades and the first spectacles which I had attended as a child.
Above all, he must not be deluded into believing that his condition can be permanently bettered by a mere battledoor [sic] and shuttlecock of words, or by any process of mere mental gymnastics or oratory.
Blancanales and the gymnastics coach scattered to the area housing the dune buggies.