horizontal bar

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.
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／单杠 (zh) 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 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) 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

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#Horizontal bar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia