floor exercise

American

noun

Gymnastics.

a competition in which each entrant performs a routine of acrobatic tumbling feats and balletic movements without any apparatus on a specifically designated floor space, usually 12 meters (39 feet) square and having a matlike covering.

Etymology

Origin of floor exercise

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

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The Bruins closed with their showstoppers on the floor exercise.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Chiles was awarded floor exercise bronze in Paris after a score revision over degree of difficulty elevated her onto the podium at the expense of Romania's Ana Maria Barbosu.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Her rudimentary classroom is so packed that many children are sitting on the tiled floor, exercise books on their laps.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

Chiles was also awarded her first individual Olympic medal, a bronze in the floor exercise, in Paris but it was taken away because of a technicality.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

By the time I got to floor exercise, I was so tired I could barely feel my legs.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

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