Sentence examples for gymnastic exercise from inspiring English sources

It appears as if they are performing a goofy gymnastic exercise.

One bends over and thereby lifts the other up as if they were performing some kind of goofy gymnastic exercise.

Her singing is free of the flowery melismas that became a ubiquitous pop cliché in the 1990s and threatened to turn singing into a mindless gymnastic exercise.

They were immense establishments of great magnificence, with facilities for every gymnastic exercise and halls in which philosophers, poets, rhetoricians, and those who wished to hear them gathered.

They might have thought: "Thank God for singing that's human and real, that doesn't treat music as some sort of gymnastic exercise".

Men such as Johann Christoph Friedrich Guts Muths in Germany and Per Henrik Ling in Sweden elaborated systems of gymnastic exercise that were eventually adopted by school systems in Britain, the United States, and Japan.

Ling devised and taught a system of gymnastic exercises designed to produce medical benefits for the athlete.

It is notorious that the Lacedaemonians themselves, while they alone were assiduous in their laborious drill, were superior to others, but now they are beaten both in war and gymnastic exercises.

The more popular and picturesque side of the Congress is to be seen at the Vélodrome d'Hiver, where practical demonstration of gymnastic exercises is given by teams of young athletes from different countries.

The United States Sanitary Commission, a voluntary relief organization that raised funds and supplies for the Union Army, recommended that "when practicable, amusements, sports, and gymnastic exercises should be favored amongst the men".

Dr. Julian Chisolm, an author of a manual of surgery for the Confederate Army, suggested that while in camp "temporary gymnasia might be established, and gymnastic exercises should be encouraged as conducive to health, strength, agility, and address".