balance beam

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balance beam

A gymnast walking on a balance beam.

The balance beam of a balance scale (marked by the red box).

Pronunciation

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Noun

balance beam (plural balance beams)

(gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, a narrow wooden rail used in artistic (athletic) gymnastics.
(gymnastics) A gymnastics event using the balance beam apparatus.
The horizontal member of any balance (scale,) usually carrying pans at each end, supported at its center by a fulcrum.

Translations

gymnastics: narrow wooden rail

Bulgarian: греда (bg) (greda)
Catalan: barra d'equilibri f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 平衡木 (zh) (pínghéngmù)
Danish: bom (da) c
Dutch: evenwichtsbalk (nl) m
Finnish: puomi (fi)
French: poutre (fr) f
German: Schwebebalken (de) m
Greek: δοκός ισορροπίας f (dokós isorropías)
Hungarian: gerenda (hu)
Indonesian: balok keseimbangan
Italian: trave di equilibrio f
Japanese: 平均台 (へいきんだい, heikindai)
Korean: 평균대 (ko) (pyeonggyundae)
Polish: balans (pl) m, równoważnia f
Portuguese: trave de equilíbrio f
Russian: бревно́ (ru) n (brevnó)
Spanish: barra de equilibrio f, viga de equilibrio f
Turkish: denge aleti

horizontal member of a balance

Bulgarian: кобилица (bg) (kobilica)
Finnish: orsi (fi)
German: Waagebalken m

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