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Acrobatic exercises
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gymnastics
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Word definitions for gymnastics in dictionaries
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 .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gymnastics is a type of sport. Gymnastics may also refer to: Artistic gymnastics , an Olympic event that includes vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor for women, and floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and high bar for ...
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.