Sports Definitions

Women's Gymnastics

  1. Aerial
  2. Arabesque
  3. Astride sitting
  4. Back flip
  5. Backward roll
  6. Backward walkover
  7. Balance beam
  8. Beam
  9. Bonus points
  10. Boundary line
  11. Bridge position
  12. Cabriole
  13. Cartwheel
  14. Cast
  15. Cat leap
  16. Chalk
  17. Clothing
  18. Compulsory exercise
  19. Connecting move
  20. Crab
  21. Dismount
  22. Dive handspring
  23. Double back somersault
  24. Double leg circle
  25. Elbow lever
  26. Element
  27. Face vault
  28. Fall
  29. Faults
  30. First flight
  31. Flank vault
  32. Float
  33. Floating support
  34. Floor exercise
  35. Fly spring
  36. Forward roll
  37. Forward somersault
  38. Forward walkover
  39. Free cartwheel
  40. Free forward roll
  41. Free walkover
  42. Front support
  43. Full turn
  44. Giant swing
  45. Glide forward
  46. Half turn
  47. Handspring
  48. Handstand
  49. Hecht half-turn
  50. Hip circle
  51. Horse vault
  52. Individual events
  53. Kick uprise
  54. Landing
  55. Longswing
  56. Lunge position
  57. Neckspring
  58. Officials
  59. Optional exercise
  60. Overgrasp
  61. Palm strap
  62. Peach basket
  63. Phases
  64. Pike
  65. Planche
  66. Push-off
  67. Reuther board
  68. Ribbon
  69. Round-off
  70. Round-off dismount
  71. Run-in
  72. Scale
  73. Scoring
  74. Second flight
  75. Set exercise
  76. Shoulder stand
  77. Side splits
  78. Splits
  79. Squat vault
  80. Straddle
  81. Straddle forward
  82. Stretched first flight
  83. Support
  84. Swan dive
  85. Swing down
  86. Team competition
  87. Tucked backward somersault
  88. Twist
  89. Two-legged squat
  90. Undergrasp
  91. Underswing
  92. Uneven bars
  93. Upper-arm support
  94. Upward swing
  95. Vault marking
  96. Vaulting box
  97. Vaulting horse
  98. Voluntary exercise
  99. Women’s Gymnastics