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agencement

English translation: a sequence


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French term or phrase:agencement
English translation:a sequence
Entered by: Hattie Hill
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21:13 Oct 31, 2008
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Sports / Fitness / Recreation / track and field - jumps
French term or phrase: agencement
un agencement de pas d'approche

un agencement de course d'élan, de saut, de pas, de saut (p. ex. : triple saut)

THis is a French Canadian document about physical education standards. Any ideas? I don't understand "agencement" in this context.

Merci à l'avance !
Hattie Hill
Local time: 15:07
a sequence
Explanation:
It' the term used to refer to the linking of movements, gestures, exercises as regards dance or gymnastics. Another French word commonly used is "enchaînement" instead of "agencement".
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Euqinimod
Local time: 21:07
Grading comment
I translated as "perform an approach sequence"
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3a sequenceEuqinimod
3 +3Layout or arrangement
Kate Hudson
3 +2LayoutColin Johnson


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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Layout


Explanation:
This refers to the layout/setting out of the ........run up.


Colin Johnson
France
Local time: 21:07
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rimas Balsys
1 hr
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
14 hrs
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Layout or arrangement


Explanation:
As in when equipment is laid out to form a course that students have to follow in a gymnasium - e.g. parallel bars, then the rope, trampoline with the buck, followed by an exercise over a mat (here with a jump)

Kate Hudson
Netherlands
Local time: 21:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 18

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ingeborg Gowans: for an obstcle course, I gatherobstacle, of course arrgh!
31 mins
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agree  Rimas Balsys
1 hr
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agree  Esther Lavedrine
15 hrs
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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
a sequence


Explanation:
It' the term used to refer to the linking of movements, gestures, exercises as regards dance or gymnastics. Another French word commonly used is "enchaînement" instead of "agencement".

Euqinimod
Local time: 21:07
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
I translated as "perform an approach sequence"

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mary Carroll Richer LaFlèche
1 hr
agree  ChalmersPreire
1 day13 hrs
agree  B D Finch
1 day18 hrs
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