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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apparatus

Sports; Gymnastics

One of the pieces of equipment used in gymnastics competition, including the balance beam, the horizontal bar, parallel bars, the pommel horse, still rings, uneven bars, and the vaulting horse.

arabesque

Sports; Gymnastics

In gymnastics and ballet, a pose on one leg with the other leg extended behind the body. The supporting leg either bent or straight. Stand on one foot and raise the other leg to the back in a split ...

arabesque penche

Sports; Gymnastics

An arabesque scale in which the back is allowed to drop so that the rear leg may be raised higher.

arabian double front

Sports; Gymnastics

An Arabian front done with two somersaults. Done in either tuck or pike or even in layout.

arabian front

Sports; Gymnastics

A tumbling somersaulting skill, which usually begins from a back tumbling skill like a round-off or back handspring, and consists of a ½ turn into front salto. Can be done in tuck, pike or layout and ...

arch

Sports; Gymnastics

A position, in which the back is curved backwards, the chest is open and. the body takes on a convex shape. Used in dance movements. Is not usually desirable in tumbling or bars.

artistic gymnastics

Sports; Gymnastics

The Olympic sport for men and women performed on apparatus and judged individually, by event, in the All-Around and by team. Men's events are floor exercise, horizontal bar, parallel bars, pommel ...