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Definition of Gymnasts
1. gymnast [n] - See also: gymnast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gymnasts
Literary usage of Gymnasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physiology of Bodily Exercise by Fernand Lagrange (1890)
"Gymnastics and ^Esthetics—A rooted prejudice; the Beauty of Form of gymnasts—Deformities
due to Gymnastics with Apparatus—Mechanism of these—Too much ..."
2. Growth During School Age: Its Application to Education by Paul Godin (1920)
"gymnasts and non-gymnasts.—Various causes of abstention.— Conclusions relative
to the results of exercise aimed at and to the method of checking. ..."
3. Japan in Our Day by Bayard Taylor, William Elliot Griffis (1903)
"The other troop is that of the gymnasts of Kioto. They perform in a vast shed,
filled with such apparatus as masts, bars, and parallels, differing little ..."
4. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"About Jugglers and gymnasts — Hazlitt and the Italian Juggler.—The Mountebanks
of Paris. — Lively Scenes on tlio Champs Elysees. — Queer Juggling Tricks. ..."
5. Idiocy: And Its Treatment by the Physiological Method by Edward Seguin (1907)
"... action becomes nearly or entirely silent or passive; as whenever the children
are engaged in their various avocations with the teachers and gymnasts. ..."
6. Cuba with pen and pencil by Samuel Hazard (1873)
"The old fort "La Punta"—The "Carcel" or royal dungeon — Execution of Lopez — The
Prado—Fountains, avenues, and buildings— Cuban gymnasts — Park of Isabel ..."
7. The Mikado's Empire by William Elliot Griffis (1906)
"often in the latter motion becoming real gymnasts, in the etymological sense of
the word. In imitating wrestling-matches, they made a small arena of sand ..."
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