gymnics

English

Noun

gymnics pl (plural only)

  1. (now rare, plural only) Gymnastics.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , II.ii.2:
      others impotent, of a cold and dry constitution, cannot sustain those gymnics without great hurt done to their own bodies […]
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