handswings

Updated: May 9, 2025

A particularly smooth and flexible horizontal pole, a desirable pair of parallel bars, a remarkably elastic spring-board, these are matters of personal pride, and described from city to city with loving enthusiasm. The gymnastic apostle rises to eloquence in proportion to the height of the handswings, and points his climax to match the peak-ladders.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861