Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Physical exercises designed to develop and display strength, balance, and agility, especially those performed on or with specialized apparatus.
- n. The art or practice of such exercises.
- n. Complex intellectual or artistic exercises: mental gymnastics.
- n. Informal Feats of physical agility: had to go through gymnastics to cross the slippery walk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- The art of performing athletic exercises; also, athletic exercises; feats of skill or address, mental or bodily.
Wiktionary
- n. A sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness.
- n. Complex intellectual or artistic exercises or feats of physical agility.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises.
- n. Disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.
- n. Feats demonstrating a quick mental agility.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek γυμνασία (gumnasia, "athletic training, exercise"), from γυμνός ("naked"), because Greek athletes were training naked. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“_movement_, the _gymnastics_ of children, is necessary, because, as is well known, muscles which are not exercised become incapable of performing the variety of movements of which the muscular system is capable, so an analogous system of gymnastics is necessary to maintain the activity of the psychical life.”
“Under the term gymnastics, literally naked exercises, we here include those denuded of all utilities or ulterior ends save those of physical culture.”
“The issue around the gymnastics is around the safety of the kids and it was not motivated by any concept of litigation, but certainly [by] that safety and well-being component of those kids when we're talking heads and necks and potentially backs if there were an injury.”
“Nicias, the tactician, is very much in favour of the new art, which he describes as the gymnastics of war — useful when the ranks are formed, and still more useful when they are broken; creating a general interest in military studies, and greatly adding to the appearance of the soldier in the field.”
“Nicias, the tactician, is very much in favour of the new art, which he describes as the gymnastics of war -- useful when the ranks are formed, and still more useful when they are broken; creating a general interest in military studies, and greatly adding to the appearance of the soldier in the field.”
“You can't watch this and still believe that gymnastics is just for girls.”
“Shawn Johnson, a gold-medal winner in gymnastics at the 2008 Games in Beijing, announced Tuesday morning that she plans on training and ... olympics | Comment | Recommend”
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“Age falsification has been a problem in gymnastics since the 1980s, when the minimum age was raised from 14 to 15 to help protect still-developing athletes from serious injuries.”
“My girls are also active in gymnastics and track, so they have no time for internet, only for projects and sometimes they play some "fantage.”
“It's like a floor exercise in gymnastics without music.”
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