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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Switch spit side leap

Sports; Gymnastics

A leap beginning like a switch-split leap, but with a ¼ twist in the air and a sideways landing.

Tap

Sports; Gymnastics

The term is most often used on high and uneven events to describe the kick used to generate the required speed and rotation for a circling skill, release skill or dismount. Typically a dynamic motion ...

Tuck position

Sports; Gymnastics

A gymnastics body position where the knees and hips are bent and drawn into the chest with the hands holding the knees. This body position is used in somersaults to rotate faster. Variation on the ...

Undergrip

Sports; Gymnastics

A term referring to the type of drip which gymnasts use on uneven bars or high bar. Hanging on a bar with your fingers facing you. Also called a reverse grip.

Tumbling pass

Sports; Gymnastics

In floor exercise and tumbling, this term is used to indicate a series of connected tumbling elements.

Turn

Sports; Gymnastics

A gymnastics and ballet movement where the rotation occurs upright on the body's axis on one or both feet. A minimum of a full turn is often a requirement on floor exercise and beam.

Turners

Sports; Gymnastics

For more than 150 years, they have formed Turnvereinen, or "gymnastic unions", which are not only athletic, but also political, "nationalistic gymnastic" organisations in Europe. The German movement ...