uneven parallel bars
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- noun
- Specialized
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barras paralelas asimétricas
- Nadia Comaneci famously achieved a perfect score while performing her routine on the uneven parallel bars at the 1976 Olympics.
Examples
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I tell them that I used to be a gymnast and I worked on the parallel bars; now I work on the vertical because what I have found is that on the uneven parallel bars you find in gymnastics.
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I watched their qualifying trials, during which a few of the aspirants who didn't make the team took ghastly, brutal falls from the uneven parallel bars.
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During the gymnastics competition, the athlete showcased her skills on the uneven parallel bars, impressing the judges with her routine.
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To prepare for her next competition, she practiced daily on the uneven parallel bars, focusing on her flips and dismounts.
Synonyms
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Two horizontal rods on vertical posts that gymnasts use
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A pair of bars set at different heights used in women's gymnastics
How Challenging
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents give a clear partial clue: 'parallel bars' signals a pair of bars and 'uneven' signals they are not at the same level, so a learner can infer 'bars set at different heights.' However, the phrase is specialized gymnastics terminology (and 'parallel' + 'uneven' can seem contradictory without domain knowledge), so the precise conventional meaning and usage (the specific apparatus in women’s gymnastics) may not be fully predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Uneven parallel bars is the name for the gymnastic equipment used in women's routines. The name comes from how it looks: two bars run side by side and are parallel, but they are at uneven heights, so gymnasts swing between the low and high bar and the name simply describes the apparatus.