GYMNAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gymnast mean? 

• GYMNAST (noun)
  The noun GYMNAST has 1 sense:

1. an athlete who is skilled in gymnastics

  Familiarity information: GYMNAST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GYMNAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An athlete who is skilled in gymnastics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("gymnast" is a kind of...):

athlete; jock (a person trained to compete in sports)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gymnast"):

tumbler (a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc.)

Instance hyponyms:

Korbut; Olga Korbut (Soviet gymnast (born in 1955))

 Context examples 

"What have you been at today, bubchen?" asked Mr. Bhaer, picking up the gymnast.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Hands off!” cried Silver, leaping back a yard, as it seemed to me, with the speed and security of a trained gymnast.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This is not unlike asking an Olympic gymnast to land on Teflon-covered high bars without chalking their hands.

(Researchers study birds to improve how robots land, National Science Foundation)