English
Various activities in gymnastics
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Ancient Greek γυμνασία ( gumnasía , “ athletic training, exercise ” ) , from γυμνός ( gumnós , “ naked ” ) , because Greek athletes were training naked.
Pronunciation
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Noun
gymnastics (uncountable )
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.
Complex intellectual or artistic exercises or feats of physical agility .
His mental gymnastics are legendary.
Derived terms
Translations
a sport
Arabic: جُمْبَاز m ( jumbāz )
Azerbaijani: gimnastika (az)
Bulgarian: гимна́стика (bg) f ( gimnástika )
Catalan: gimnàstica (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 體操 / 体操 (zh) ( tǐcāo ) , 体操 (zh) ( tǐcāo ) , 體育 / 体育 (zh) ( tǐyù ) , 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 f
German: Turnen (de) n , 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)
Italian: ginnastica (it) f
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Japanese: 体操 (ja) ( たいそう, taisō ) , 体育 (ja) ( たいいく, taiiku )
Korean: 체조 (ko) ( chejo ) (體操 (ko) )
Latvian: vingrošana f
Macedonian: гимнастика f ( gimnastika )
Malay: gerak badan , gimnastik , ( rare ) taiso
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
Ukrainian: гімна́стика f ( himnástyka )
Uzbek: gimnastika (uz)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
Walloon: djimlastike (wa) f
complex intellectual or artistic exercise
Translations to be checked
See also