parallel bars

English

Noun

parallel bars pl (plural only)

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
A gymnastics event using the parallel bars.

Related terms

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

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