Gymnastics words, in the order you need them
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Words
- Exercise
- Apparatus
- Execution
- Difficulty
- Landing
- Judges
- Vault
- Uneven bars
- Balance beam
- Floor exercise
- Vault groups
- Two-vault bonus
- Invalid vault
- Artistry
- Dismount bonus
- Floor exercise
- Pommel horse
- Still rings
- Vault
- Parallel bars
- Horizontal bar
- Hold
- Tumbling pass
- Somersault
- Twist
- Handspring
- Split
- Straddle
- Pike
- Layout
- Apparatus
- Leap
- Body difficulty
- Apparatus difficulty
- Rhythmic gymnastics
- Group exercise
- Hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon
- D, A and E scores
- Dynamic element with rotation
- Rhythmic artistry
- Bounce
- Trampoline exercise
- Time of flight
- Trampoline gymnastics
- Synchronised trampoline
- Tumbling
- Trampoline scoring
- Horizontal displacement
- Trampoline difficulty
- Whipback
- Qualification (trampoline)
- Chair of Judges Panel
- Yurchenko vault
- Giant swing
- Aerial
- Full twisting layout
- Scale
- Release move
- D score
- E score
- Final score
- Dismount
- Fall
- Stick
- Qualification and finals
- Connection value
- Composition requirements
- Start value
- Neutral deduction
- All-around
- Difficulty value
- Element group
- Non-recognition
- Intermediate swing
- Cast
- Acro series
- Dance element
Rules
- What are the events in artistic gymnastics?
- How is a gymnastics score worked out?
- What goes into the difficulty score in gymnastics?
- How do gymnastics judges take off points for mistakes?
- How much does a fall cost in gymnastics, and can the gymnast carry on?
- How are landings judged in gymnastics, and what is "sticking" a landing?
- What penalties are there in gymnastics apart from execution errors?
- How does the vault work in gymnastics, and why do some gymnasts do two?
- What does a gymnast have to do on the uneven bars?
- What are the rules on the balance beam?
- What are the rules for the women's floor exercise?
- What are the rules for the men's floor exercise?
- What does a gymnast have to do on the pommel horse?
- What does a gymnast have to do on the rings?
- What does a gymnast have to do on the parallel bars?
- What does a gymnast have to do on the horizontal bar?
- What happens in a rhythmic gymnastics routine?
- How is rhythmic gymnastics scored?
- What body movements count for difficulty in rhythmic gymnastics?
- How do throws and catches score in rhythmic gymnastics?
- What are rhythmic gymnastics judges looking for in artistry?
- How do rhythmic gymnastics judges deduct for mistakes?
- What happens when a rhythmic gymnast drops the hoop, ball, clubs or ribbon?
- What are the other penalties in rhythmic gymnastics?
- How does the group event work in rhythmic gymnastics?
- What is an exchange in a rhythmic gymnastics group routine?
- What is a collaboration in a rhythmic gymnastics group routine, and are lifts allowed?
- How is a rhythmic gymnastics group judged on moving together?
- What does a trampoline gymnast have to do in a routine?
- How is trampoline gymnastics scored?
- How is the difficulty of a trampoline skill worked out?
- What do trampoline judges take points off for?
- What are time of flight and horizontal displacement in trampoline?
- What ends a trampoline routine early?
- How does a trampoline routine have to finish?
- How does a trampoline competition work?
- What penalties are there in trampoline apart from the judging?
- How does synchronised trampoline work?
- What are the rules of tumbling?
- What is double mini-trampoline, and how is it scored?