balance beam

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   a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts

   Synonymsbeam

   Broadergymnastic apparatus

Questions about balance beam

What does balance beam mean?

balance beam means "a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts".

What is another word for balance beam?

Close synonyms include beam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is balance beam a common word?

balance beam is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.