Gymnastics

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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fouetté

Sports; Gymnastics

A term applied to a whipping gymnastics and ballet dance movement. The movement may be a short whipped movement of the raised foot as it passes rapidly in front of or behind the supporting foot or ...

Garrison

Sports; Gymnastics

(1) A floor exercise skill named after U. S. gymnast Kelly Garrison. It consists of a cat leap forward with bent legs and 1 ½ turn. It has been rated by the FIG as C level skill and its FIG number is ...

Gatson

Sports; Gymnastics

A P-bar skill named after Jason Gatson. It consists of a swing backward with full turn hop to handstand. It has been rated as D level skill by the FIG.

Gaylord

Sports; Gymnastics

(1) A high bar skill named after U. S. gymnast Mitch Gaylord. It is a front giant into a one-and-one-half front salto over the bar to regrasp – a front somersault in tuck, pike or straddled position ...

Gienger

Sports; Gymnastics

A flyaway back salto with a one-half twist, followed by a re-grasp of the bar. Named for German gymnast Eberhard Gienger, who created and first performed the skill.

grand plié

Sports; Gymnastics

A gymnastics and ballet movement where the gymnast stands with legs fully bent. A large bend; a movement that requires both knees to fully bend at the same time, and the body is lowered very close to ...

grande jeté

Sports; Gymnastics

A ballet term used to describe a split leap, a large jump that is done from one foot to the other. It can be done either fermé (closed) or ouverte (open); there are many forms of grand jeté such as: ...