parallel bars

English

Noun

parallel bars pl (plural only)

1. A set of apparatus consisting of two horizontal bars at a small distance apart, upon which acts of swinging and holding and jumping and dips are performed.

   Synonym: dip bars

2. A gymnastics event using the parallel bars.

Related terms

• asymmetric bars
• uneven bars

Translations

set of apparatus

• Finnish: nojapuut (fi) pl
• French: barres parallèles (fr) f pl
• German: Barren (de) m
• Greek: δίζυγο (el) n (dízygo)
• Hungarian: korlát (hu)
• Polish: poręcz (pl) f
• Romanian: paralele f pl, bare paralele f pl
• Russian: паралле́льные бру́сья (ru) m pl (parallélʹnyje brúsʹja), бру́сья (ru) m pl (brúsʹja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра́збо̄ј m

  Roman: rázboj (sh) m (literally “loom”)

• Swedish: barr (sv)

Further reading

• parallel bars on Wikipedia.Wikipedia