Pommel horse

A men's artistic gymnastics apparatus with a padded body and two handles called pommels. Gymnasts perform continuous circular and scissor movements while supporting themselves on their hands.

Pommel horse skills: The named circles, swings, turns, and travel elements performed on the pommel horse. These movements form the vocabulary from which pommel horse routines are built.
Artistic gymnastics: A gymnastics discipline in which athletes perform judged routines on apparatus or floor. The pommel horse is one of the apparatus events within this discipline.
Gymnasium (ancient Greece): A Greek institution for physical training, education, and social life. The pommel horse’s name and equestrian form recall historical physical training with horses.
Still rings: An artistic gymnastics event performed on two suspended rings. Rings emphasize static strength and controlled swings, unlike the horse’s continuous leg circles.
Flair (gymnastics): A pommel horse skill in which the legs circle apart in a wide straddled position. Flairs extend the circular movement vocabulary while changing the legs’ position.
Gymnastics apparatus: Equipment designed for specific events in competitive gymnastics. The horse’s body and handles define the physical support available for its skills.
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn: A German educator who helped establish modern organized gymnastics in the early nineteenth century. Jahn’s gymnastics movement helped shape the apparatus culture from which the horse developed.
Parallel bars: A men’s artistic gymnastics event performed on two parallel elevated rails. Parallel bars allow broad swings and release skills, while the horse restricts movement to continuous support.
Scissor (gymnastics): A pommel horse movement in which the legs swing alternately over the apparatus. Scissors add alternating leg actions to the event’s continuous hand-supported work.
Support (gymnastics): A body position maintained by bearing weight through the hands or arms on an apparatus. Hand support is the constant foundation for movement on the pommel horse.

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