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gymnastics

/jim-nas-tiks/US // dʒɪmˈnæs tɪks //UK // (dʒɪmˈnæstɪks) //

体操,体操运动,体操比赛,体术

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : gymnastic exercises.
    • : the practice art, or competitive sport of gymnastic exercises.
    • : mental feats or other exercises of skill: Verbal gymnastics.

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Examples

  • Habits die hard, and at the pool and gymnastics venues, journalists clumped together as they always had to ask questions and snag quotes when athletes stopped by.

  • It was a dramatic way to begin and end the gymnastics competition at the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games.

  • Also, Olympic gymnastics competitions are rarely shown live on network TV.

  • Percolating under the surface of the happy medals ceremonies for the event finals, however, is a growing movement within the gymnastics community about rules that prevent gymnasts from warming up on the equipment minutes before they compete.

  • There are a lot of opinions being shared about Simone Biles’ decision to withdraw from the recent gymnastics team final and individual all-around competition at the Tokyo Games to put her mental health and well-being first.

  • She first chats about doing gymnastics, track, and soccer in high school while managing the wrestling team.

  • The legal gymnastics necessary to create such impenetrable networks is a testament to the ingenuity of well-paid attorneys.

  • No verbal gymnastics like Lennon, not even a joke—just one flat line, so mumbled and understated as to be almost non-existent.

  • It was that spectacular and it went on for an hour or two… a mass display of gymnastics and dancing and tumbling.

  • However, its only teams to win gold were in gymnastics and fencing, both intensely solo sports.

  • You have even gone so far as to insist upon my practising gymnastics a little.

  • He got through without difficulty; for he knew the entrance well, and was master of these gymnastics in the sea.

  • It was equally an interesting plaything and a source of mental gymnastics.

  • Mathematics may be called narrow, but no one can have sound intellectual culture without these mental gymnastics.

  • It exercised the intellect and strengthened it, as gymnastics do the body, without enlarging it.