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Definition of Horizontal bar
1. Noun. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of a bar supported in a horizontal position by uprights at both ends.
Definition of Horizontal bar
1. Noun. (gymnastics) A horizontally-aligned bar used in gymnastics, upon which acts of swinging are performed. ¹
2. Noun. (gymnastics) A gymnastics event using the horizontal bar. ¹
3. Noun. (typography) The dash symbol (?) (used to introduce quoted text) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horizontal Bar
Literary usage of Horizontal bar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The sign most widely used is a small horizontal bar, sometimes waved, placed
above the word, which indicates an abbreviation by contraction or suspension: ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"Immediately over this end of this wire, and fixed upon this horizontal bar, stands
a perpendicular bar, which is the next conductor. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Another form, mechanically equivalent to this, is a weighted horizontal bar,
pivoted on a fixed horizontal fulcrum, and held up by a spiral spring, ..."
4. Physical Education by Archibald Maclaren, Wallace Maclaren (1895)
"THE horizontal bar. THIS machine, in the variety of its exercises and ... It is
important that every gymnasium should contain two forms of horizontal bar, ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The horizontal bar is usually made of hickory, or some other hard wood, ...
The first exercise with the horizontal bar should be that of drawing the body ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The horizontal bar which receives the pull of the load is connected at its ends with
... Above the horizontal bar, and parallel with it, is a rod which is ..."
7. Gymnastic Teaching by William Skarstrom (1921)
"Start from the hanging I High horizontal bar and boom. position. ... ( High and
low horizontal bar. Start from the back rest, or sitting position, ..."
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