gymnics
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]gymnics pl (plural only)
- (now rare, plural only) Gymnastics.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] 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 […]