noun
Meaning 1
One who performs (the sport of) gymnastics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
gymnast
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈdʒɪm.næst/
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US: /ˈd͡ʒɪm.næst/
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US: /ˈd͡ʒɪm.nəst/
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noun
Meaning 2
an athlete who is skilled in gymnastics
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: athlete, jock
Narrower terms: tumbler, Korbut, Olga Korbut
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γυμναστής (gumnastḗs, “trainer of athletes”), from γυμνάζω (gumnázō, “I train naked, exercise”), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”).
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: մարմնամարզիկ (marmnamarzik) — one who performs gymnastics
- Catalan: gimnasta — one who performs gymnastics
- Chinese Mandarin: 體操運動員 /体操运动员 (tǐcāo yùndòngyuán) — one who performs gymnastics
- Czech: gymnasta — one who performs gymnastics
- Czech: gymnastka — one who performs gymnastics
- Dutch: turner — one who performs gymnastics
- Dutch: gymnast — one who performs gymnastics
- Dutch: gymnaste — one who performs gymnastics
- Finnish: voimistelija — one who performs gymnastics
- French: gymnaste — one who performs gymnastics
- Galician: ximnasta — one who performs gymnastics
- German: Turner — one who performs gymnastics
- German: Turnerin — one who performs gymnastics
- Greek: αθλητής της γυμναστικής (athlitís tis gymnastikís) — one who performs gymnastics
- Greek: αθλήτρια της γυμναστικής (athlítria tis gymnastikís) — one who performs gymnastics
- Hungarian: tornász — one who performs gymnastics
- Ido: gimnastikisto — one who performs gymnastics
- Ido: gimnastikero — one who performs gymnastics
- Italian: ginnasta — one who performs gymnastics
- Japanese: 体操選手 (taisō senshu) — one who performs gymnastics
- Latvian: vingrotājs — one who performs gymnastics
- Latvian: vingrotāja — one who performs gymnastics
- Lithuanian: gimnãstas — one who performs gymnastics
- Lithuanian: gimnãstė — one who performs gymnastics
- Macedonian: гимнастичар (gimnastičar) — one who performs gymnastics
- Macedonian: гимнастичарка (gimnastičarka) — one who performs gymnastics
- Norwegian Bokmål: turner — one who performs gymnastics
- Norwegian Nynorsk: turnar — one who performs gymnastics
- Persian: ژیمناست (žimnâst) — one who performs gymnastics
- Polish: gimnastyk — one who performs gymnastics
- Polish: gimnastyczka — one who performs gymnastics
- Portuguese: ginasta — one who performs gymnastics
- Romanian: gimnast — one who performs gymnastics
- Romanian: gimnastă — one who performs gymnastics
- Russian: гимна́ст (gimnást) — one who performs gymnastics
- Russian: гимна́стка (gimnástka) — one who performs gymnastics
- Spanish: gimnasta — one who performs gymnastics
- Swedish: gymnast — one who performs gymnastics
- Thai: นักกายกรรม (nák-gaai-yá-gam) — one who performs gymnastics
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