Try a Google search on callisthenics (note the spelling).

Note, too that callisthenics changed over the twentieth century.  I stand
to be correcterd, but I think it was primarily light fitness work, mainly
for men in the 1900s, often associated with light clubs which were tossed
in the air and caught, rather like juggling.  In the 1940s and 1950s it
dropped out of favour with adults and it became a sort of synchronized
swimming on land, mainly as a group activity for girls.  Towards the end of
the twentieth century, it moved more towards gymnastics for young people,
but is also the name used for light flexibility routines used by elderly
people in group exercise classes.  It is characterized by lightness, speed
and coordination rather than power and strength.

Keith

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