balance beam

English

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)

1. (gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, a narrow wooden rail used in artistic (athletic) gymnastics.
2. (gymnastics) A gymnastics event using the balance beam apparatus.
3. 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
• Danish: bom (da) c
• Dutch: evenwichtsbalk (nl) m
• Finnish: puomi (fi)
• French: poutre (fr) f
• German: Schwebebalken (de) m
• Hungarian: gerenda (hu)
• Indonesian: balok keseimbangan
• Italian: trave di equilibrio f
• 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