parallel bars

English

Noun

1. (gymnastics) A set of apparatus consisting of two horizontal bars at a small distance apart, used by male gymnasts, upon which acts of swinging and holding and jumping are performed.
2. (gymnastics) A gymnastics event using the parallel bars.

Related terms

• asymmetric bars
• uneven bars

Translations

set of apparatus

• Finnish: nojapuut (fi) pl
• French: barres parallèles (fr) f pl
• German: Barren (de) m
• Greek: δίζυγο (el) n (dízygo)
• Romanian: paralele f pl, bare paralele f pl
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• Russian: паралле́льные бру́сья (ru) m pl (parallélʹnyje brúsʹja), бру́сья (ru) m pl (brúsʹja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра́збо̄ј m

  Roman: rázboj (sh) m (literally “loom”)

Further reading

• parallel bars on Wikipedia.Wikipedia