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Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of various exercises on several different apparatus, mainly uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise and vault for women. While men compete in floor exercises, vault, pommel horse, string rings, parallel bars and high bar.
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Gymnastics
vault
Sports; Gymnastics
An event performed over the vaulting horse by both men and women. The gymnast races down a runway, vaults from a springboard onto the horse, landing with the hands, and then vaults off to a standing ...
vault table
Sports; Gymnastics
The vault table is the new vaulting apparatus for both men and women. The new vault table is designed to be safer by offering a wider and longer top surface to provide a better margin of error for ...
vaulting horse
Sports; Gymnastics
A piece of apparatus, 35 centimeters wide by 160 centimeters long, used for the vault. The men's vaulting horse is 135 centimeters high, the women's 120 centimeters high.
virtuosity
Sports; Gymnastics
A term that in relation to gymnastics refers to the artistry, or the degree of rhythm and harmony, displayed when a movement is executed to its maximum in terms of style and elegance. In general, the ...
voluntary routine
Sports; Gymnastics
This is a term sometimes used to refer to an optional gymnastics routine. The term is not commonly used in the United States.
walkover
Sports; Gymnastics
A gymnastics floor and beam move where a gymnast moves from a standing position through a handstand position to a standing position while "walking" through the air with the feet. Starting from ...
whip back
Sports; Gymnastics
A movement similar to the back handspring, except that the hands don't touch the floor.