gymnast

English

A gymnast.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γυμναστής (gumnastḗs, “trainer of athletes”), from γυμνάζω (gumnázō, “I train naked, exercise”), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɪm.næst/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪm.næst/, /ˈd͡ʒɪm.nəst/

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Noun

gymnast (plural gymnasts)

1. One who performs (the sport of) gymnastics.

Derived terms

• mental gymnast

Related terms

• gymnastic
• gymnastical
• gymnastically
• gymnastics

Translations

one who performs gymnastics

• Armenian: մարմնամարզիկ (hy) (marmnamarzik)
• Catalan: gimnasta m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體操運動員 / 体操运动员 (zh) (tǐcāo yùndòngyuán)

• Czech: gymnasta (cs) m, gymnastka (cs) f
• Dutch: turner (nl) m, gymnast (nl) m or f, gymnaste (nl) f
• Finnish: voimistelija (fi)
• French: gymnaste (fr) m or f
• Galician: ximnasta m or f
• German: Turner (de) m, Turnerin (de) f
• Greek: αθλητής της γυμναστικής m (athlitís tis gymnastikís), αθλήτρια της γυμναστικής f (athlítria tis gymnastikís)
• Hungarian: tornász (hu)
• Italian: ginnasta (it) m or f
• Japanese: 体操選手 (たいそうせんしゅ, taisō senshu)
• Latvian: vingrotājs m, vingrotāja f
• Lithuanian: gimnãstas m, gimnãstė f
• Macedonian: гимнастичар m (gimnastičar), гимнастичарка f (gimnastičarka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: turner (no) m

  Nynorsk: turnar m

• Persian: ژیمناست (žimnâst)
• Polish: gimnastyk (pl) m, gimnastyczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ginasta (pt) m or f
• Romanian: gimnast (ro) m, gimnastă (ro) f
• Russian: гимна́ст (ru) m (gimnást), гимна́стка (ru) f (gimnástka)
• Spanish: gimnasta (es) m or f
• Swedish: gymnast (sv) c
• Thai: นักกายกรรม (nák-gaai-yá-gam)

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Noun

gymnast m (plural gymnasten, diminutive gymnastje n, feminine gymnaste)

1. gymnast

Related terms

• gymnastiek

Swedish

Noun

gymnast c

1. gymnast

Declension

Declension of gymnast

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	gymnast	gymnasts
	definite	gymnasten	gymnastens
plural	indefinite	gymnaster	gymnasters
	definite	gymnasterna	gymnasternas

Related terms

• gymnastik
• gymnasticera
• gymnastiksal

See also

• gymnasist