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n. Physical exercises designed to develop and display strength, balance, and agility, especially those performed on or with specialized apparatus.

n. The art or practice of such exercises.

n. Complex intellectual or artistic exercises: mental gymnastics.

n. Informal Feats of physical agility: had to go through gymnastics to cross the slippery walk.

n. A sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness.

n. Complex intellectual or artistic exercises or feats of physical agility.

n. Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises.

n. Disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.

n. Feats demonstrating a quick mental agility.

The art of performing athletic exercises; also, athletic exercises; feats of skill or address, mental or bodily.

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

"_movement_, the _gymnastics_ of children, is necessary, because, as is well known, muscles which are not exercised become incapable of performing the variety of movements of which the muscular system is capable, so an analogous system of gymnastics is necessary to maintain the activity of the psychical life."

athletics    sport   

swedish gymnastics   

gymnastic    gymnasium    gym    gymnast   

tumbling    acrobatics   

rhythmic gymnastics    artistic gymnastics   

athletics    calisthenics   

onomastics    plastics    thermoplastics