What's the difference between gymnastics and running?

Gymnastics


Definition:

  • (n.) Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This law can be used to simulate the ground reaction force during under-foot impact with a gymnastic surface.
  • (2) We see a lot of verbal gymnastics by these candidates at public events,” said Paul S Ryan at the Campaign Legal Center.
  • (3) The greatest proportion of injuries in children occur in gymnastics, figure skating and modern gymnastics.
  • (4) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
  • (5) The athletes were training in gymnastics, figure skating, synchronized swimming, volleyball, or track.
  • (6) Anthropometric characteristics, passive hip flexion, and spinal mobility were examined and back pain was registered in 116 top Swedish male athletes representing four different sports (wrestling, gymnastics, soccer, tennis).
  • (7) The gymnast Louis Smith took individual silver and team bronze at the Olympics and went on to win the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing last month, with the cyclist Victoria Pendleton also competing.
  • (8) While some gymnasts seem more ethereal than corporeal, Beth's blisters and calluses have always been obvious.
  • (9) Wang was said to excel in physics and calligraphy; Ye in literature and gymnastics.
  • (10) The versatility of training, in combination with adequate gymnastical exercises and sports help to educate the sense of posture and movement with the effect that erect posture can be adopted and maintained.
  • (11) Awareness of space and time, songs and poems, narratives and themes discussed made it possible to revival the necessary gymnastics of the mind.
  • (12) In comedy, for example, the agenda kept changing with a set of circular twists and turns more dizzying than the ones that got our gymnasts a bronze at the Olympics.
  • (13) This year’s US national gymnastics championships and next year’s Olympic diving team trials will be held in Indianapolis.
  • (14) Monteggia fractures can occur during a fall on an outstretched arm, for example in motor or bicycle sport injuries, but also when falling from gymnastic equipment.
  • (15) A therapeutic algorithm was established to facilitate the evaluation and management of gymnast wrist pain.
  • (16) Satisfactory joint function was eventually achieved in all by gymnastic exercises and physiotherapy over a long period.
  • (17) Women who feel "unfeminine" when playing sport could take up other activities like "ballet, gymnastics, cheerleading and even roller-skating", the minister of sports, equalities and tourism Helen Grant has suggested.
  • (18) At the time, with the current gen consoles as our platforms, we had to do a lot of technological gymnastics just to do simple things like creating your character's load out on your smartphone on the train then have it waiting for you on the console when you got home.
  • (19) Cooperation in gymnastics and controls within short times by the doctor are necessary.
  • (20) Putin has long been rumoured to have had a series of dalliances with much younger women, and there has been speculation that he fathered a child with a former Olympic gymnast.

Running


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Run
  • (a.) Moving or advancing by running.
  • (a.) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
  • (a.) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
  • (a.) Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.
  • (a.) Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
  • (a.) Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation.
  • (a.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine.
  • (a.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.
  • (n.) The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow.
  • (n.) That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as, the first running of a still.
  • (n.) The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
  • (2) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
  • (3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (4) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (5) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
  • (6) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
  • (7) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
  • (8) These major departmental transformations are being run in isolation from each other.
  • (9) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
  • (10) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (11) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
  • (12) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
  • (13) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
  • (14) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
  • (15) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (16) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
  • (17) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
  • (18) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
  • (19) The American Red Cross said the aid organisation had already run out of medical supplies, with spokesman Eric Porterfield explaining that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies available in Haiti had been distributed.
  • (20) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.