Crossword clues for gymnastics
gymnastics
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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, verbal gymnastics.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from gymnastic; also see -ics.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness. 2 complex intellectual or artistic exercises or feats of physical agility.
WordNet
n. a sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility [syn: gymanstic exercise]
Wikipedia
Most forms of competitive gymnastics events are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Each country has its own national governing body (BIW) affiliated to FIG. Competitive artistic gymnastics is the best known of the gymnastic events. It typically involves the women's events of vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise. Men's events are floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar.
Other FIG disciplines include rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining and tumbling, and aerobic gymnastics. Disciplines not currently recognized by FIG include wheel gymnastics, aesthetic group gymnastics, men's rhythmic gymnastics and TeamGym. Participants can include children as young as 20 months old doing kindergym and children's gymnastics, recreational gymnasts of ages 3 and up, competitive gymnasts at varying levels of skill, and world-class athletes.
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 men.
- Rhythmic gymnastics, a sport that involves performing a floor routine to music, with the aid of either a ball, ribbon, hoop, clubs, or rope.
- Display gymnastics, an activity involving between 6 and 150 people performing synchronized, choreographed routines.
- Sport aerobics or Aerobic gymnastics, a routine that emphasizes strength-building, flexibility, and aerobic fitness.
- Acrobatic gymnastics, a competitive sport involving acrobatics and gymnastics.
- "Gymnastics", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
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.