From the word’s history
From gymnastic + -ics; from Latin gymnasticus, from Greek, ultimately from gymnos 'naked', as Greek athletes trained naked.
源自希臘文 gymnos「赤裸的」，因為古希臘運動員裸身訓練。
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.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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.
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