Definition of "gymnast" []

• A person who is trained and skilled in gymnastics, especially one who engages in competition. (noun)

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• "This level of analysis will tell you a compact gymnast is favored and a good baseball pitcher is usually tall."
• "(Larissa Latynina, a gymnast from the Soviet Union in the 1950s and '60s, won 18 medals overall, nine golds)."
• "Obama has the same qualities as a certain Chinese gymnast I know of."