Crossword clues for gymnastic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gymnastic \Gym*nas"tic\ (j[i^]m*n[a^]s"t[i^]k), Gymnastical \Gym*nas"tic*al\ (j[i^]m*n[a^]s"t[i^]*kal), a. [L. gymnasticus, Gr. gymnastiko`s: cf. F. gymnastique. See Gymnasium.]
Pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; -- originally said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; in modern times more specifically applied to athletic exercises demonstrating balance and agility, such as tumbling, somersaulting, and bodily maneuvers performed on special equipment such as parallel bars or a balance beam; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc.
pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect.
Gymnastic \Gym*nas"tic\, n. A gymnast. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Latin gymnasticus, from Greek gynmastikos "fond of or skilled in bodily exercise," from gymnazein "to exercise or train" (see gymnasium).\n
Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining to gymnastics. 2 Pertaining to the gymnasium (ancient Greek schools). alt. 1 Pertaining to gymnastics. 2 Pertaining to the gymnasium (ancient Greek schools). n. (context obsolete English) A gymnast.
WordNet
Usage examples of "gymnastic".
Second, he must recover the fighting qualities of an airman and therefore develop himself physically by such gymnastic exercises as a bedridden man is capable of doing.
Every arachnoid still emerged for sexual mating, and also for certain ritual gymnastic exercises.
Meyerhold would have his actors trained in the techniques of the acrobatic circus, fencing, boxing, ballet and eurhythmies, gymnastics and modern dance so that they could tell a story through the supple movements of their whole bodies or even just their faces.
With a gymnastic fluidity, she pulled herself up off her feet and swung her body towards the yellow surface.
The grimaces and caperings of buffoonery, the gymnastics of the punster and the parodist, the revels of pure nonsense may be, at their best, a refreshment and delight, but they are not comedy, and have proved in effect not a little hostile to the existence of comedy.
She was in fact a little arithmetical fairy, and her father made her perform a series of gymnastics among numbers as brilliant in their way as the vocal flourishes and roulades of an accomplished singer.
Alexander, who was tall, active, and robust, surpassed most of his equals in the gymnastic arts.
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.
Then we tumble onto the gymnastic mat that is conveniently lying on the floor and have the sweetest sexual experience ever to occur within the hallowed halls of Pineville High.
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.
She was beginning to respect just how gymnastic Chaplin must have been.
This done, instead of leaving the door fastened, he drew back the bolts and even placed the door ajar, as though he had left the room, forgetting to close it, and slipping into the chimney like a man accustomed to that kind of gymnastic exercise, having effaced the marks of his feet upon the floor, he commenced climbing the only opening which afforded him the means of escape.
Just getting into one of those backbreakers took a certain amount of gymnastic skill, and the headroom was so small it was all but impossible to turn over.
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.