parallel bars
plural noun
1
: a pair of usually wooden bars supported horizontally above the floor at the same height or at different heights usually by a common base and used in gymnastics
2
: an event in gymnastics competition in which even or uneven parallel bars are used
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The playground is highlighted by two climbing walls, a set of parallel bars, a virtual tunnel, curved uprights, helix climbers, banister rails and a button walk. 
Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022 His athletic prowess came on the pommel horse, vault and parallel bars. Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2022 The same goes for U.S. gymnast Sunisa Lee on the parallel bars. Robert Gauthier Staff Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021 Within a week of their surgeries, all three participants in the trial could walk independently with the use of body-weight support from parallel bars and an overhead harness. Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 7 Feb. 2022 The parallettes, a miniature version of the parallel bars gymnasts use, are an excellent tool for opposition training. Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021 Chiles owned the highest marks of the day with a 9.900 on the vault and uneven parallel bars, respectively. Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022 Courtine explains that while the treatment effects of his group’s device are immediate, at first, the patients did require additional body weight support, which consisted of either two parallel bars on the ground or on a treadmill. Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2022 However, the event does not require strength holds like the parallel bars or the still rings. Emily Adams, USA TODAY, 27 June 2021 See More
Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022 His athletic prowess came on the pommel horse, vault and parallel bars. Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2022 The same goes for U.S. gymnast Sunisa Lee on the parallel bars. Robert Gauthier Staff Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021 Within a week of their surgeries, all three participants in the trial could walk independently with the use of body-weight support from parallel bars and an overhead harness. Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 7 Feb. 2022 The parallettes, a miniature version of the parallel bars gymnasts use, are an excellent tool for opposition training. Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021 Chiles owned the highest marks of the day with a 9.900 on the vault and uneven parallel bars, respectively. Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022 Courtine explains that while the treatment effects of his group’s device are immediate, at first, the patients did require additional body weight support, which consisted of either two parallel bars on the ground or on a treadmill. Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2022 However, the event does not require strength holds like the parallel bars or the still rings. Emily Adams, USA TODAY, 27 June 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1850, in the meaning defined at sense 1