Gymnastics is a
sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, balance and grace.
Artistic gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the
Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Artistic Gymnastics, typically involves the women's events of
uneven parallel bars,
balance beam,
floor exercise, and
vault. Men's events include
floor exercise,
pommel horse,
still rings,
vault,
parallel bars, and
high bar. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient
Greeks, that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills. Other forms of gymnastics are
rhythmic gymnastics, various
trampolining sports, and aerobic and acrobatic gymnastics.