parallel bars

English

Noun

parallel bars pl (plural only)

1. A set of apparatus consisting of two horizontal bars at a small distance apart, upon which acts of swinging and holding and jumping and dips are performed.

   Synonym: dip bars

2. A gymnastics event using the parallel bars.

Related terms

• asymmetric bars
• uneven bars

Translations

set of apparatus

Catalan: barres paral·leles f pl Finnish: nojapuut (fi) pl French: barres parallèles (fr) f pl German: Barren (de) m Greek: δίζυγο (el) n (dízygo) Hungarian: korlát (hu) Polish: poręcz (pl) f Romanian: paralele f pl, bare paralele f pl Russian: паралле́льные бру́сья (ru) m pl (parallélʹnyje brúsʹja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ра́збо̄ј m Roman: rázboj (sh) m (literally “loom”) Swedish: barr (sv) Ukrainian: парале́льні бруси́ (uk) m pl (paralélʹni brusý)

Further reading

• parallel bars on Wikipedia.Wikipedia