Gymnastics is the sport of flips, jumps, and perfect balance on bars and beams. Do gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, a gymnastics club.
The beam is ten centimetres wide and four metres up, which is the fact that explains everything about the discipline. Mental gymnastics means twisted reasoning. The Greek behind it means to train naked, which is how Greek athletes competed.
1noungymnasticsThe sport of flips, jumps and balance on apparatus.
“She started gymnastics at five and can now do a backflip on the beam.”
gymnastics is a sport.
Greek gymnastikos comes from gymnazein, to train, from gymnos, naked — Greek athletes trained and competed without clothes.
Proto-Indo-European
*negʷ-
Ancient Greek
γυμναστικός
Latin
gymnasticus
English, today
gymnastics
Built from
From gymnastic: see -ics; from Latin gymnasticus, from Ancient Greek γυμναστικός, from γυμναστής (“athlete, gymnast”), from γῠμνᾰ́ζω (“to train, exercise”), from γυμνός (“naked”), because Greek athletes trained naked. by surface analysis, gymnast + -ics.
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