Gymnastics is an activity and sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, co-ordination, balance, and grace. It involves the women's events of uneven parallel bars, balance beams, floor exercise and vaults. Men's events include floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars and high bars.

Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks, that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills.

ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

Competitive gymnasts perform short routines (ranging from approximately 30 to 90 seconds) on different apparatus.

Equipments and clothing used:

- chalk

- grips

- mats

- uniform

- braces

- apparatus

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RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS

It is a sport in which indivicuals or teams of competitors(from 2 to 6 people) manipulate one or two apparatus: rope, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon.

An individual athelete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time.

it is a sport that combines elements of ballet, gymnastics, dance and apparatus manipulation.

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