gymnastics

Various activities in gymnastics

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γυμνασία (gumnasia, “athletic training, exercise”), from γυμνός (“naked”), because Greek athletes were training naked.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /dʒɪmˈnæs.tɪks/

Noun

gymnastics (plural gymnastics)

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.

Derived terms

• artistic gymnastics
• rhythmic gymnastics

Related terms

• gym
• gymnasium
• gymnast
• gymnastic

Translations

a sport

• Arabic: جمباز (ar) (jumnaaz) m
• Bulgarian: гимнастика (bg) (gimnástika) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體操 (cmn), 体操 (cmn) (tǐcāo), 體育 (cmn), 体育 (cmn) (tǐyù)

• Czech: gymnastika (cs) f
• Danish: gymnastik (da)
• Dutch: gymnastiek (nl) f
• Finnish: voimistelu (fi)
• French: gymnastique (fr) f
• Galician: ximnasia (gl) f
• German: Turnen (de) n, Gymnastik (de) f
• Greek: γυμναστική (el) (γimnastikí) f

• Hungarian: gimnasztika (hu), torna (hu)
• Icelandic: fimleikar (is) m pl
• Japanese: 体操 (ja) (たいそう, taisō), 体育 (ja) (たいいく, taiiku)
• Macedonian: гимнастика (mk) (gimnástika) f
• Malay: gerak badan (ms), gimnastik (ms), (rare) taiso (ms)
• Norwegian: gymnastikk (no)
• Polish: gimnastyka (pl) f
• Romanian: gimnastică (ro) f
• Russian: гимнастика (ru) (gimnástika) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гимнастика (sh) f, тјеловјежба (sh) f

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

• Spanish: gimnasia (es) f
• Swedish: gymnastik (sv)
• Ukrainian: гімнастика (uk) (himnástyka) f
• Walloon: djimlastike (wa) f

complex intellectual or artistic exercise

• Finnish: harjoitus (fi)
• German: Gymnastik (de) f

• Greek: ακροβατισμός (el) (akrovatismós) m
• Macedonian: гимнастика (mk) (gimnástika) f
• Serbo-Croatian: gimnàstika (sh) f, tjèlovježba (sh) f

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Translations to be checked

• Maltese: ġimnastika f

See also

• Gymnastics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gymnastics on Wikiversity. Wikiversity