In "Truck and Field," gold-medal winners like Dan O'Brien will jog on a treadmill that's been mounted atop a military tank; others will perform pommel-horse and balance-beam routines on a pair of wooden sculptures that replicate airline seats, says commissioner Lisa Freiman. ❋ Kelly Crow (2011)
In grade school I was almost on my way to hooping, it seems, because I found that I liked sports and activities that involved fun props and instruments: baton, roller-skating, flag cheerleading, volleyball, gymnastics at the balance-beam. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Bobby and I move over to the scaleone of those old, mechanical, black-and-white scales with the balance-beam arm. ❋ Dan Clark (2009)
After winning the all-round title, she failed to win any gold medals the next day in the four individual events and fell in both her balance-beam and her uneven-bars routines. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I heard about an Olympic gymnast who lost the use of one eye in a balance-beam injury. ❋ Ph.D. Wendy Mogel (2001)
Equipment on the Maple Leaf included a balance-beam scale, a mortar and pestle, minié balls, candles, and storage jars and canisters. (left) [LARGERIMAGE] A soldier's gear could have included a coffee pot, canteen, spurs, belt, shaving gear, and musical instruments. (right) [LARGERIMAGE] (St. Johns Archaeological Expeditions) ❋ Unknown (1998)
He could not possibly perceive when his balance-beam was out of its centre, and if he had seen a slight leaning to one side, and that side not his own, he could not have conceived that the scales of justice would have been very much affected. ❋ Charles Roger (N/A)
The regular working of the machinery was aided by the employment of a balance-beam connected by a chain with the head of the large piston and pump-rods; and the whole of these powerful machines by means of three of which as much as 789,840 gallons of water were pumped out of the mines every 24 hours -- were set in operation and regulated merely by the turning of a stopcock. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1863)
Now the first American male skater to score gold since Brian Boitano in the 1988 games in Seoul, Chicago-born Lysacek, 24, has also found love in high places - with balance-beam gymnast and fellow gold-medalist, Nastia Luikin. ❋ Austin (2010)
Think of them as balance-beam gymnasts, while the rugged little horse you grew up on might be more akin to a member of the hockey team. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Tori Howard celebrates her balance-beam performance with teammates during Missouri's Black and Gold meet Friday at the Hearnes Center. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Lacey paused, waiting till she had Tristan’s full attention, then lifted up one leg as if she were doing a balance-beam routine. ❋ Elizabeth Chandler (2003)
- won immunity with their superior balance-beam skills. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Oh my gosh justin just texted me?" - [gay friend]
"Wait I thought he was straight" - [straight friend]
"Well he asked if I was a top or [a bottom] and keeps flirting" - gay friend
"I guess he's a balance beam" - straight friend ❋ Britany J-swag (2014)
Joe often uses [the street light] outside of the bar as his [poor-balance beam] after a few [too many] ❋ F4nt4st1c1234 (2008)
