Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context gymnastics English) A set of apparatus consisting of two horizontal bars at a small distance apart, used by male gymnasts, upon which acts of swinging and holding and jumping are performed. 2 (context gymnastics English) A gymnastics event using the parallel bars.
WordNet
n. gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights [syn: bars]
Wikipedia
Parallel bars is an apparatus used by gymnasts in artistic gymnastics. Gymnasts may optionally wear grips when performing a routine on the parallel bars, although this is uncommon.
Usage examples of "parallel bars".
Never did Brunies make a boy tremble under the horizontal bar, suffer on the parallel bars, or weep on hot climbing ropes.
There were nine jumps in all: a brush fence, a stile, a gate, parallel bars, the road-closed sign put up to a nasty five foot, another brush with a pole on top, a water jump which had been drained by various dogs, a wall and a triple.
With the braces on her lap, she wheeled back to the parallel bars.
He went down the spiralling steps through several complete revolutions, until he arrived at a door formed of parallel bars of steel set in vertical stanchions.
He swung back and forth, blowing out his breath forcefully and grunting, holding his legs straight together and propelling himself high over the parallel bars and the pit of fine white sand.
The crimson feather of a large bird stuck out of his hair, and his cheeks were painted with slanting parallel bars: green, white, and black.
Thus Bongiovanni cites the examples of Carpo the Fool, an early freshman who knocked himself senseless in a fall from the parallel bars and was for some terms thereafter the butt of campus humor, and Gaffer McKeon, 'The Perfect Cheat,' who confessed to never having given an uncribbed answer during his brilliant undergraduate career.
He remembered, decades ago before the Death exercising in the first chamber, swinging vigorously on parallel bars .
He took a walk around the gym, finally choosing the parallel bars as his vantage point and sitting in a folding chair that was set beneath them.