horizontal bar

English

A horizontal bar

Noun

horizontal bar (plural horizontal bars)

1. (gymnastics) A horizontally-aligned bar used in gymnastics, upon which acts of swinging are performed.

   Near-synonym: pull-up bar

2. (gymnastics) A gymnastics event using the horizontal bar.
3. (typography) The dash symbol (―) (used to introduce quoted text)
4. (typography) The horizontal form of the fraction bar.

Synonyms

• (gymnastics): high bar
• (dash): quotation dash

Translations

horizontally-aligned bar used in gymnastics

• Bulgarian: висилка f (visilka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 單杠 (zh) (dāngàng) or 單槓／单杠 (zh) (dāngàng)

• Czech: hrazda (cs) f
• Dutch: rekstok (nl) m
• Esperanto: reko
• Finnish: rekki (fi)
• French: barre fixe (fr) f
• German: Reck (de) n
• Greek: μονόζυγο (el) n (monózygo)
• Hebrew: מֶתַח (he) m (métaẖ)
• Hungarian: nyújtó (hu), magasugróléc, magasugró léc
• Icelandic: svifrá f
• Japanese: 鉄棒 (ja) (てつぼう, testubō)
• Kazakh: белтемір (beltemır)
• Macedonian: вратило n (vratilo)
• Persian: بارفیکس (fa) (bârfiks)
• Polish: drążek (pl) m
• Portuguese: barra fixa f
• Romanian: bară fixă (ro) f
• Russian: перекла́дина (ru) f (perekládina), турни́к (ru) m (turník)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вра̀тило

  Roman: vràtilo (sh)

• Swedish: räck (sv) n

gymnastics event

• Finnish: rekki (fi)
• Hungarian: nyújtógyakorlat (hu)

typography: the dash symbol (―) (used to introduce quoted text — see quotation dash

typography: the horizontal form of the fraction bar — see fraction bar

See also

• horizontal bar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia