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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

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gymanstic 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)

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