GYMNASTICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gymnastics mean? 

• GYMNASTICS (noun)
  The noun GYMNASTICS has 1 sense:

1. a sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility

  Familiarity information: GYMNASTICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GYMNASTICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gymnastic exercise; gymnastics

Hypernyms ("gymnastics" is a kind of...):

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Domain member category:

gymnastic exercise ((gymnastics) an exercise designed to develop and display strength and agility and balance (usually performed with or on some gymnastic apparatus))

exerciser; gymnastic apparatus (sports equipment used in gymnastic exercises)

chin; chin up (raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gymnastics"):

acrobatics; tumbling (the gymnastic moves of an acrobat)

Derivation:

gymnastic (vigorously active)

gymnastic (of or relating to or used in exercises intended to develop strength and agility)

 Context examples 

Some good angel inspired me to try gymnastics, and I kept it up till they were glad to sit down and keep still.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In short, from that day forth it seemed only by a great effort as of gymnastics, and only under the immediate stimulation of the drug, that I was able to wear the countenance of Jekyll.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Frank, sitting just behind the little girls, heard what they were saying, and pushed his crutch away from him with an impatient gesture as he watched the active lads going through all sorts of comical gymnastics.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She likewise set up housekeeping in the sideboard, and managed a microscopic cooking stove with a skill that brought tears of pride to Hannah's eyes, while Demi learned his letters with his grandfather, who invented a new mode of teaching the alphabet by forming letters with his arms and legs, thus uniting gymnastics for head and heels.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)