How to Use floor exercise in a Sentence

floor exercise

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Definition of floor exercisenext
  • Chiles will do the vault and the floor exercise, and Lee will take on the uneven bars and the beam.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2021
  • Davis won the floor exercise and earned third place on vault and balance beam.
    — Lauren Green, Philly.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The vault final will be Aug. 1 and the floor exercise final will be Aug. 2.
    — Emily Adams, USA TODAY, 21 July 2021
  • Douglas started the day on a shaky note on the floor exercise.
    — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Biles took the top score on both balance beam and floor exercise.
    — Wayne Sterling, CNN, 23 May 2021
  • Chiles won the all-around, vault and floor exercise and took silver on beam at the 2021 Winter Cup.
    — Emily Leiker, USA TODAY, 28 June 2021
  • Jade Carey came into the floor exercise final with a clear head and a will to do her best.
    — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Biles went on to win a 25th medal -- another gold -- in the floor exercise.
    — Christina Kline, CNN, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Thomas won the state championship in the floor exercise (9.65) for the third straight season.
    — cleveland, 6 Mar. 2021
  • In 2016, Biles won gold in the team event, in the individual all-around, and in the vault and floor exercise.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 29 July 2021
  • Rockford finished third in both the floor exercise and vault and fourth in the uneven bars.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Biles took the highest score in three of the four events — vault, balance beam, and floor exercise — and came in third in the uneven bars.
    — Jeva Lange, The Week, 7 June 2021
  • Her scores in the qualifying round of the all-around in Tokyo earned her one of the eight spots in the floor exercise final.
    — Alice Park/tokyo, Time, 2 Aug. 2021
  • But Malone fought and by March was back on vault and floor exercise, perhaps the events that put the most strain on the legs and knees, with a brace.
    — Alice Park / Minneapolis, Minn., TIME, 1 July 2024
  • Biles had another chance to close out the Paris Olympics on a stronger note, in the floor exercise final.
    — Alice Park / Paris, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Last year, a mistake on floor exercise left her in 10th place at the Olympic trials.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Skinner, 22, was sixth on floor exercise and tied for the sixth highest vault score.
    — Tess Demeyer, azcentral, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The women will compete in vault and uneven bars, and the men in floor exercise and pommel horse.
    — Joshua Berlinger and Adam Renton, CNN, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Also watch for Ona Loper on the vault and freshman Mya Hooten on the floor exercise.
    — Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • At the last 2016 summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Biles won four gold medals, taking the top spot in the floor exercise, vault, all-around and team events.
    — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 28 June 2021
  • Kady Bryant led the Lynx by earning a share of second place in the vault and finishing third in floor exercise.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Lee subbed in the final rotation of the floor exercise.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2021
  • The diagonal length of the floor exercise mat is less than 56 feet.
    — Stanley Kay, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Grace McCallum, a member of the 2019 world team, fell off bars and on floor exercise.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 5 June 2021
  • Knowing a good routine would win the gold, Lee took off on her first tumbling run on the floor exercise and stuck the landing.
    — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
  • Lee had the fourth-best scores on both floor exercise and balance beam, and her 14.4 on vault was serviceable.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 5 June 2021
  • Spencer’s floor exercise average of 9.09 leads the league, as well.
    — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Wade will compete in the vault and balance beam Wednesday, and in bars and floor exercise Thursday.
    — Scott Hanson, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
  • As the last competitor in the recent floor exercise final at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Chiles bounced up on her first landing, landed short on her last, and initially finished in fifth.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • In the women's floor exercise final, Chiles claimed bronze after leapfrogging Ana Barbosu of Romania at the very end of the competition following an appeal to the judges that increased her score.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024

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