Which Muscle Adducts the Thigh?

The hamstring part extends and adducts the thigh. The adductor magnus

is the largest of the adductor muscles and is the most posterior of the adductor muscles, which crosses into the posterior compartment.

What muscles abduct the thigh?

The gluteus medius muscle helps abducts the thigh along with the gluteus maximus, but can rotate the thigh inward where the gluteus maximus rotates the thigh outward. The below the gluteus medius are several muscles, one of which is the gluteus minimus, the smallest of the gluteal muscles.

Which muscle adducts the thigh at the hip?

The pectineus muscle adducts and flexes the femur at the hip. The thigh muscles that move the femur, tibia, and fibula are divided into medial, anterior, and posterior compartments.