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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turners

Sports; Gymnastics

For more than 150 years, they have formed Turnvereinen, or "gymnastic unions", which are not only athletic, but also political, "nationalistic gymnastic" organizations in Europe. The German movement ...

turnout

Sports; Gymnastics

In gymnastics and ballet, a rotation of the leg which comes from the hips, causing the knee and foot to turn outward, away from the center of the body. This allows for greater extension of the leg, ...

twist

Sports; Gymnastics

Not to be confused with a salto, a twist occurs when the gymnast rotates around the body's longitudinal axis, defined by the spine.

twisting degrees

Sports; Gymnastics

Fractions and degrees are used in order to describe twisting movements. A ½ twist is a 180-degree twist, a full (1/1) twist is a 360 degree twist. A 1& ½ twist is 540 degrees of twist. A double twist ...

undergrip

Sports; Gymnastics

A term referring to the type of drip which gymnasts use on uneven bars or high bar. Hanging on a bar with your fingers facing you. Also called a reverse grip.

underswing

Sports; Gymnastics

A release move from the high bar to the low bar. It starts on the on high bar facing low bar. The gymnast swings up and over the low bar with a half turn to a catch of the low bar. Also called a ...

uneven bars

Sports; Gymnastics

(1) A women’s gymnastics apparatus consisting of two fiberglass composite bars - a low bar 148 centimeters high and a high bar 228 centimeters high and set a maximum of 150 centimeters apart. (2) A ...