gymnastic

1 gymnastics plural but singular in construction a :  physical exercises designed to develop strength and coordinationb :  a competitive sport in which individuals perform optional and prescribed acrobatic feats mostly on special apparatus in order to demonstrate strength, balance, and body control

2 :  an exercise in intellectual or artistic dexterity my earlier philosophic study had been an intellectual gymnastic — John Dewey mental gymnastics

3 :  a physical feat or contortion the gymnastics necessary for the killer to have swung from the fire escape — E. D. Radin

:  of or relating to gymnastics