gymnastics

English

Various activities in gymnastics

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γυμνασία (gumnasía, “athletic training, exercise”), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”), because Greek athletes trained naked.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪmˈnæs.tɪks/

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Noun

gymnastics (uncountable)

1. A sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness.

   Gymnastics was a significant part of the physical education curriculum.

2. Complex intellectual or artistic exercises or feats of physical agility.

   His mental gymnastics are legendary.

   • 1983 April 23, Ruth Borenstein, “Alive! Dazzles”, in Gay Community News, page 11:

     Her voice swooped and soared as she raced through some double time vocal gymnastics which included a beautifully clear horn impersonation.

Derived terms

• acrobatic gymnastics
• artistic gymnastics
• gymnastics chalk
• mental gymnastics
• rhythmic gymnastics

 

Related terms

• gym
• gymnasium
• gymnast
• gymnastic

Translations

a sport

• Arabic: جُمْبَاز m (jumbāz)
• Armenian: մարմնամարզություն (hy) (marmnamarzutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: gimnastika (az)
• Bulgarian: гимна́стика (bg) f (gimnástika)
• Catalan: gimnàstica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體操／体操 (zh) (tǐcāo), 體育／体育 (zh) (tǐyù)

• Czech: gymnastika (cs) f
• Danish: gymnastik
• Dutch: gymnastiek (nl) f
• Esperanto: gimnastiko
• Finnish: voimistelu (fi)
• French: gymnastique (fr) f
• Galician: ximnasia (gl) f
• German: (competitive) Turnen (de) n, (exercise, e.g. medical) Gymnastik (de) f
• Greek: γυμναστική (el) f (gymnastikí)
• Hebrew: הִתְעַמְּלוּת (he) f
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: gimnasztika (hu), torna (hu)
• Icelandic: fimleikar m pl
• Ido: gimnastiko (io)
• Indonesian: senam (id), gimnastik (id)
• Italian: ginnastica (it) f
• Japanese: 体操 (ja) (たいそう, taisō), 体育 (ja) (たいいく, taiiku)
• Korean: 체조(體操) (ko) (chejo)
• Latvian: vingrošana f
• Macedonian: гимнастика f (gimnastika)
• Malay: gerak badan, gimnastik (ms), (rare) taiso
• Maori: takaporepore
• Norwegian: gymnastikk (no)
• Polish: gimnastyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ginástica (pt) f
• Romanian: gimnastică (ro) f
• Russian: гимна́стика (ru) f (gimnástika)
• Sanskrit: दाक्ष (sa) (dākṣa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гимнастика f, тјеловјежба f

  Roman: gimnastika (sh) f, tjelovježba (sh) f

• Spanish: gimnasia (es) f
• Swedish: gymnastik (sv)
• Tagalog: palakatwanan
• Turkish: jimnastik (tr)
• Ukrainian: гімна́стика f (himnástyka)
• Uzbek: gimnastika (uz)
• Vietnamese: thể dục (vi)
• Walloon: djimlastike (wa) f
• Yiddish: גימנאַסטיק f (gimnastik)

complex intellectual or artistic exercise

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: akrobataĵo
• Finnish: harjoitus (fi)
• German: Gymnastik (de) f
• Greek: ακροβατισμός (el) m (akrovatismós)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: ginnastica (it) f
• Macedonian: гимнастика f (gimnastika)
• Polish: gimnastyka (pl) f
• Russian: гимна́стика (ru) f (gimnástika)
• Serbo-Croatian: gimnàstika (sh) f, tjèlovježba (sh) f
• Vietnamese: sự rèn luyện

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} ġimnastika f

See also

• gymnastics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gymnastics on Wikiversity.Wikiversity