How to Use balance beam in a Sentence

balance beam

noun
  • Trimble was the top scorer on vault, uneven bars, and balance beam.
    Lauren Green, Philly.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The others include another vault, two floor skills and a balance beam skill.
    Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 30 July 2024
  • While training as a gymnast, Chelsea fell off of a balance beam at the age of 10 and injured her back.
    CBS News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Gymnasts will learn the fundamentals and work on floor, vault, parallel bars and balance beam.
    Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2017
  • By way of a warm-up, our host started us on a short Parkour course consisting of low walls, balance beams, and a tilted glass walkway.
    Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The highest scores from the Tigers came from Milliet with a 9.9 on both the balance beam and floor routine.
    Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Milliet took the win in balance beam, uneven bars and floor exercise with 9.9s on each apparatus.
    Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Obstacles on the course include climbing walls, a rope climb, a mud pit, a hay bale hill climb, uneven parallel bars, a balance beam and a 2.5-mile run, with jumps and crawls.
    Courant Community, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Maddie Giglio did not picture herself winning a medal on balance beam during Saturday's state championship finals.
    C.r. Walker, Daily Southtown, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Two uncharacteristic falls off the balance beam for Florida left the meet's final score in question, but the Gators emerged victorious.
    Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Biles won four gold medals in the 2016 Rio Olympics and a bronze medal on the balance beam.
    Peter Weber, The Week, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The 22-year-old took the top scores on floor, vault and balance beam but placed third on bars.
    Vanna Quiroz, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Biles still made the event finals in vault, balance beam and floor and all-around.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2021
  • Kids can climb, jump and run over rope bridges, balance beams and so much more.
    Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Following that speech, Biles went on to wow the crowd on the balance beam.
    J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Wieber was also bronze medalist on the balance beam in the same event.
    Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2020
  • A week ago O’Keefe earned the Utes’ first 10.0 of the season with a perfect routine on the balance beam.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The 18-year-old Ms. Lee, who finished fifth on the balance beam, won the Olympic all-around title.
    Will Graves, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The Utes drew the rotation of starting on the balance beam, their best event.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Mar. 2021
  • But, in the lead-up to the last final, on Tuesday, on the balance beam, Biles’s name appeared on the start list.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The move came at the finale of Biles' minute-and-a-half-long routine, which ended on the balance beam.
    Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Think back to grade school and the days of walking on the balance beam, or doing jump rope, or four square.
    Peter San Nicolas, Ramona Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Davino, 11: second on the balance beam, third in the all-around, and fourth on the vault and in the floor exercise.
    Mike May, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Women compete in just four, with the balance beam and uneven bars added to the floor and vault.
    Claire Galofaro, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The Fire Melt Burger ($9) played with heat like a gold medal Olympic gymnast on the balance beam.
    Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Canzoni captured first in the balance beam with a 9.450.
    Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Paige Yu from Highland placed second in the all-around and balance beam.
    Cameron Fields, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Gophers to watch: Lexy Ramler has a chance to place in the all-around, balance beam, uneven bars and the vault.
    Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The balance beam final is scheduled for 9:15 p.m. at the time of writing.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Saraiva went on to compete in all four events—uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and vault—for the team final.
    Chantelle Lee, TIME, 30 July 2024

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