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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White

Sports; Gymnastics

An uneven bar skill named after Morgan White. It consists of a front stalder into an L-grip to handstand with ½ turn in handstand. It has been rated by the FIG as a D level skill and its FIG number ...

Walkover

Sports; Gymnastics

A gymnastics floor and beam move where a gymnast moves from a standing position through a handstand position to a standing position while "walking" through the air with the feet. Starting from ...

Whip back

Sports; Gymnastics

A movement similar to the back handspring, except that the hands don't touch the floor.

Vaulting horse

Sports; Gymnastics

A piece of apparatus, 35 centimetres wide by 160 centimetres long, used for the vault. The men's vaulting horse is 135 centimetres high, the women's 120 centimetres high.

Zero

Sports; Gymnastics

Which is the score you get if you do not compete in a gymnastics event or do something which voids your score, like not touching the vault table with your hands when you vault.

Virtuosity

Sports; Gymnastics

A term that in relation to gymnastics refers to the artistry, or the degree of rhythm and harmony, displayed when a movement is executed to its maximum in terms of style and elegance. In general, the ...