Meanings
noungymnics pl (plural only)
- archaicpluralplural onlyGymnastics.
others impotent, of a cold and dry constitution, cannot sustain those gymnics without great hurt done to their own bodies […]
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 2
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