gymnast

English

A gymnast.

Etymology

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): /ˈdʒɪm.næst/, /ˈdʒɪm.nəst/

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Noun

gymnast (plural gymnasts)

1. One who performs gymnastics

Translations

one who performs gymnastics

• Catalan: gimnasta m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體操運動員 (zh), 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: γυμναστής (el) m (gymnastís)
• 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
• Macedonian: гимнастичар m (gimnastičar), гимнастичарка f (gimnastičarka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: turner (no) m

  Nynorsk: turnar m

• Persian: ژیمناست‎ (žimnâst)
• 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

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Swedish

Noun

gymnast c

1. gymnast

Declension

Declension of gymnast
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	gymnast	gymnasten	gymnaster	gymnasterna
Genitive	gymnasts	gymnastens	gymnasters	gymnasternas

Related terms

• gymnastik
• gymnasticera
• gymnastiksal

See also

• gymnasist