balance beams
Narrow gymnastic apparatus
Balance beams are narrow, elevated platforms used in gymnastics, requiring athletes to perform leaps, turns, and acrobatic skills while maintaining equilibrium.
The apparatus stands about four feet high and four inches wide.
The term also applies to similar beams used for physical therapy or children's play equipment: She walked across the balance beam without wobbling.
- dismountGet off something ridden
- stick the landingFinish a routine flawlessly
- leotardTight one-piece garment
- gymnasticsAthletic discipline of controlled movement
- competitive gymnasticsScored acrobatic athletic discipline
Olympic trials · wobble · Nadia Comaneci · routines · fall · apparatus · land · Simone Biles · perfect ten · cartwheel · back walkover · narrow · handstand · flexibility · equilibrium · flip · somersault · springboard
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- obstacle racesmud pits, rope climbs, monkey bars, cargo nets, climbing walls
- play centerball pit, ball pool, climbing frame, climbing frames, foam pit
- playground featuresswings, slides, climbing frames, sandpits, monkey bars
- canalsGrand Canal, Panama Canal, Suez Canal, Erie Canal, canal boat
- gymnasium furnituremats, exercise mats, benches, lockers, racks
balance beamsvault
Secure storage chamber
uneven bars · parallel bars · pommel horse · horizontal bar · still rings
balance beamsfloor
Indoor walking surface
ground · open floor · solid ground · mats · flat ground
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