Gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of various exercises on several different apparatus, mainly uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise and vault for women. While men compete in floor exercises, vault, pommel horse, string rings, parallel bars and high bar.

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Acrobatics

Sports; Gymnastics

A gymnastics term for control skills requiring balance, strength, and/or flexibility. Sometimes called corner skills in men’s gymnastics. For women, it includes some of the slower, more controlled ...

Allegro

Sports; Gymnastics

Means fast, in dance it refers to jumps performed to a sharp, quick tempo. There are two types of allegro jumps - grand allegro are large jumps and petite allegro are small jumps.

Alternates

Sports; Gymnastics

Any tumbling pass that directly connects two saltos (somersaults or flips) by the use of any handspring skill. For example: Round-off whip back handspring whip. It is more common to see alternates ...

10.0

Sports; Gymnastics

The highest possible and most desired routine score for gymnasts to achieve on a single routine. In the past and perhaps in the future, at least for men’s gymnastics, scores may exceed 10.0 if they ...