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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Overshoot

Sports; Gymnastics

A release move from the high bar to the low bar. It starts on the on high bar facing low bar. The gymnast swings up and over the low bar with a half turn to a catch of the low bar. Also called an ...

Parallel bars

Sports; Gymnastics

1) A piece of apparatus consisting of two bars, each 195 centimetres high and 350 centimetres long, and positioned 42 to 52 centimetres apart. 2) A men's event performed on the apparatus. A routine ...

Peel

Sports; Gymnastics

Peeling off of a gymnastics apparatus refers to a situation where a gymnast involuntarily lets go of the apparatus with their hands causing their body to fly away from the apparatus and often ...

Isometric muscle contraction

Sports; Gymnastics

An isometric muscle contraction when your muscle contracts, but does not change in length. A common example of an isometric muscle contraction is hanging from a chin-up bar with your arms bent at 90 ...

Isometric stretching

Sports; Gymnastics

Isometric stretching is a type of static stretching (meaning it does not involve motion) which involves the resistance of muscle groups through isometric contraction of the stretched muscles.. The ...

Kip

Sports; Gymnastics

Movement from a position below the equipment to a position above, usually on the uneven bars, parallel bars or high bar.

Hurdle

Sports; Gymnastics

This term refers to a gymnastics transition from a run to a tumbling skill, most commonly a round-off or a front handspring. A hurdle resembles a skip. In actual gymnastics competition, the hurdle is ...