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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aerial

Sports; Gymnastics

A skill performed without the hands touching the floor or the apparatus. Also used as an adjective, as in aerial cartwheel and aerial walkover.

airplane

Sports; Gymnastics

A trampoline skill done by jumping with a 1/2 longitudinal axis (LA) twist to a front drop.

all-around

Sports; Gymnastics

A category of gymnastics that includes all of the events. The all-around champion of an event earns the highest total score from all events combined.

allegro

Sports; Gymnastics

means fast, in dance it refers to jumps performed to a sharp, quick tempo. There are two types of allegro jumps - grand allegro are large jumps and petite allegro are small jumps.

alternates

Sports; Gymnastics

Any tumbling pass that directly connects two saltos (somersaults or flips) by the use of any handspring skill. For example: Round-off whip back handspring whip. It is more common to see alternates ...

amanar

Sports; Gymnastics

a vault named after Simona Amanar of Romania. The vault is a 2 1/2 twisting lay-out Yurchenko done by her at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

amplitude

Sports; Gymnastics

The height or degree of execution of a movement. In general, the higher the salto or the more breathtaking the movement, the better the amplitude and the score.