gymnastic

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Hence they will require a simpler kind of gymnastic, akin to their simple music; and for their diet a rule may be found in Homer, who feeds his heroes on roast meat only, and gives them no fish although they are living at the sea-side, nor boiled meats which involve an apparatus of pots and pans; and, if I am not mistaken, he nowhere mentions sweet sauces.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to gymnastics.

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  • Fitness, gymnastic, and bodybuilding related events have been taking place there since the 1930s. —  Chiropractic News
  • When he had been teaching me twice a day for three weeks I introduced a new gymnastic--one that he had never seen before--and so at last a compliment was wrung from him, a thing which I had been risking my life for days to achieve. —  Chapters from My Autobiography
  • Several others of the new Alligator Patrol sat on the edge of the stern and rock-bound coast, their legs dangling in the water, and seemed in danger of falling in, so gymnastic was their merriment. —  Pee-Wee Harris Adrift
  • It was a wild gymnastic--a display of incredible, riotous energy, the delirious caperings of a gutter-urchin caught in the midst of some gutter-urchin's windfall by a jolly tune. —  The Dark House
  • Regarded as a mental gymnastic, these themes may have possessed some value. —  Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
 

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  1. = Dutch gymnastiek = G. Danish Swedish gymnastik, n., = French gymnastique, adjective and n., = Spanish gimnástico, adjective, gimnástica, n., = Portuguese gymnastico, adjective, gymnastica, n., = Italian ginnastico, adjective, ginnastica, n., from Latin gymnasticus, from Greek γυμναστικός, pertaining to athletic exercises (feminine γυμναστική, gymnastics), from γυμνάζειν, train in athletic exercises: see gymnast, gymnasium.
 

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/dʒɪmˈnæstɪk/
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