gymnics

English

Noun

gymnics pl (plural only)

  1. (now rare, plural only) Gymnastics.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:
      , 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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