Word.ws English Dictionary

horizontal bars

horizontal bars is the plural of horizontal bar.

Meaning of horizontal bar

Noun

horizontal bar (plural horizontal bars)

  1. A horizontally-aligned bar used in gymnastics, upon which acts of swinging are performed.
    • Near-synonym: pull-up bar
  2. A gymnastics event using the horizontal bar.
  3. The dash symbol (―) (used to introduce quoted text)
    Synonyms:
    quotation dash
  4. The horizontal form of the fraction bar.

Questions about horizontal bars

What is horizontal bars the plural of?
Horizontal bars is the plural of horizontal bar.

Words near horizontal bars in the dictionary

  1. horizonless
  2. horizonlessness
  3. horizons
  4. horizontal
  5. horizontal bar
  6. horizontal bars
  7. horizontal categorification
  8. horizontal dancing
  9. horizontal divestiture
  10. horizontal divestitures
  11. horizontal escalation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: horizontal bars (page history and authors); horizontal bar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “horizontal bars.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/horizontal_bars. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.