rhythmic
- adjective
- /ˈrɪðmɪk/
- Children enjoy clapping their hands in rhythmic patterns during music class.
- rhythmic pattern
- rhythmic movement
- melodic and rhythmic
I think my daughter, my young daughter has this rhythmic ability.
- I think my daughter, my young daughter has this rhythmic ability.
- It's hard, hard to do unless you have these very rhythmic phrases that you could speak.
- It is a fact that the changes, the physical changes on Earth are rhythmic, they are cyclic.
- So now you want people won't forget it and it controls rhythmic breathing.
- Because by repeating it, he makes that a kind of drum beat, a rhythmic pulse.
- And if you would, could you comment on some of the mechanisms for rhythmic breathing versus non rhythmic breathing?
- You describe Thunder and cracking, opening the sky and the resonant sound made deeper by rhythmic hits.
- And who knows, maybe that could have something to do with me being able to synchronize my body to rhythmic sounds.
- It's a mixture of concentration and rhythmic relaxation that I think calms the brain down.
- So this is like a semi rhythmic kind of improvisation.
- This has really just great rhythmic energy to it.
- It's a good point and most of my rhythmic growth is evolutionary.
Examples
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Write the students' rhythmic pattern on the board so that they see their pattern in notation.
Academic text (2011) -
Have students read rhythmic patterns from flashcards or the board to practice the rolled technique.
Academic text (2011) -
This has really just great rhythmic energy to it.
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Focus students' attention on those people who control the rhythmic movement in this manner.
Academic text (1990) -
It's hard, hard to do unless you have these very rhythmic phrases that you could speak.
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I came to believe that her rhythmic knock was a hidden message, a kind of code.
Fiction book (1994) -
At the third center, students played a rhythmic error detection game on computers.
Academic text (2011) -
Her breathing became more rhythmic, and she lay her head back against the soft cushion.
Fiction book (1994) -
Musical play may also include vocalizations, rhythmic movement of the body or objects, or playing instruments.
Academic text (1999) -
There was a sound down the way, the rhythmic thud of metal drums, growing ever louder.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
Happening at fixed times on a schedule
Doing the same thing again and again
Happens again at regular times
Happening again and again at regular times
Happening again and again, often at regular times
Happens repeatedly in a regular pattern
Happening with a steady, regular beat like music or movement
Has a steady, regular rhythm like a clock
Moving back and forth in a regular way
A voice or way of speaking that sounds like a simple musical tune
Having a regular, rhythmic beat like steady footsteps or chants
Shows a clear, regular rhythm in movement or sound
Moving or sounding in time with a beat
Music with a regular steady beat like a march
Showing a regular beating movement like a heartbeat
Moving back and forth in a regular way
Compounds
How Rhythmic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rhythmic comes from the Greek rhythmos, which meant 'measured flow' or 'movement'. Think of a steady drum beat or regular breathing to remember this: rhythmic means having a regular, repeated pattern of sounds or movements.