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Gymnastic exercise

noun

(gymnastics) an exercise designed to develop and display strength and agility and balance (usually performed with or on some gymnastic apparatus).

A sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility. Synonym: gymnastics.

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"Gymnastic exercise" Quotes from Famous Books

... One great advantage of gymnastic exercise is, it makes the chest expand, it fills the lungs with air, and by doing so strengthens them amazingly, and wards off many diseases. The lungs are not sufficiently exercised and expanded; boys and girls, girls especially, do not as a rule half fill their lungs with air; now air to the lungs ...

— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse

... control of our Sympathy and Knowledge, it implies a possession of these attributes, for without having Sympathy and Knowledge you have nothing to control but your physical body. To practise Poise as a mere gymnastic exercise, or study in etiquette, is to be self-conscious, stiff, preposterous and ridiculous. Those who cut such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make angels weep, are men void of Sympathy and Knowledge trying to cultivate Poise. Their science is a mere matter of what to ...

— Love, Life & Work • Elbert Hubbard