核心畫面
A body doing what a body does not normally do: jumping, spinning, rolling, then stopping dead in a hold — bent into positions that take real strength, and made to look controlled while it happens. You can think of the word as marking that mix of difficulty, twisting, and the show of keeping it all under control.
可以想成一個人在墊子上翻、轉、跳，然後突然停住不動：身體被拗到平常根本不會去的位置，每一下都要出很大的力，卻還得看起…更多收起
可以想成一個人在墊子上翻、轉、跳，然後突然停住不動：身體被拗到平常根本不會去的位置，每一下都要出很大的力，卻還得看起來穩、看起來輕鬆。這個字大概就抓著這三件事——高難度、大幅度地扭轉、而且要撐住不露破綻。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gymnasticsnoun/d͡ʒɪmˈnæs.tɪks/
- 1
A sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness.
- Gymnastics was a significant part of the physical education curriculum.
- 2
Complex intellectual or artistic exercises or feats of physical agility.
- His mental gymnastics are legendary.
- […] something undoubtedly caused Mr. Joolby to stumble back and he floundered into the arms—and incidentally upon the toes—of his fellow conspirators. That was the moment chosen for the room to be blacked completely out […] "What the hell's happened?" shouted Nickle—the first to find his voice because he was the least involved in the gymnastics.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。