Gymnastics Terminologies: PHED214

GYMNASTICS
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GYMNASTICS
• Physical exercises designed to develop strength and coordination
• It is a type exercises developing or displaying physical agility and
coordination
• It is a competitive sport in which individuals perform optional and
prescribed acrobatic feats
• It is a sports mostly on special apparatus in order to demonstrate strength,
balance, and body control
• This event used strength, flexibility, and agility to undertake high-intensity,
continuous motions.
• This sport has its origins in ancient Greece, where young men underwent
intense physical and mental training for warfare
• MENS GYMNASTICS -This gymnastics event has been on the Olympic
schedule since 1924.
• It's a type of physical agility and coordination workout that helps you build or
show off your physical strength.
• ROUTINE-It is combination of skill elements on one apparatus or event
• STUNTS- Activities in the forms of play that test one's self on flexibility,
agility, balance, coordination, strength and endurance
• Athlete- A person who is proficient in sports and other forms of physical
exercise
GYMNASTICS APPARATUS
• Any one of the pieces of equipment used in gymnastics
• It is a Type of equipment used in competition, including the vaulting table,
uneven bars, balance beam, the horizontal bars, parallel bars, the pommel
horse and still rings
RECREATIONAL GYMNASTICS
• A non-competitive classes available in General Gymnastics, Tumbling and

Trampoline
• It is a type of Gymnastics designed for kids that want to learn basic
gymnastics skills
AEROBIC GYMNASTIC
• A combination of gymnastics skills with dance in a fast-paced, fun and energetic gym
sport. Performing to music
• Can be performed as a solo gymnast or with friends, both providing for a highly
entertaining and crowd-engaging sport
• It is a sport that combines elements of ballet
• This event in Gymnastics manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop,
ball and ribbon
• The sport was originated from traditional aerobics and was included as a sports
discipline in FIG (The International Gymnastics Federation) in 1994.
• It is a fast-paced, exciting, and dynamic gym sport, mixes gymnastics skills
with dancing
• It is a competitive sport originating from traditional aerobics in which
complex, high-intensity movement patterns
• It is perform in high intensive, continuous movements, utilizing strength,
flexibility and agility
• It is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on
different apparatuses
• Women compete in floor exercise, vault, uneven bars, and balance beam at
this gymnastics competition.
• It is possible to perform as a solo gymnast or with a group of friends, and it
is both a very entertaining and crowd-engaging sport
ELEMENTS ON GYMNASTICS
• Dynamic strength elements- This aerobic gymnastics aspect includes
pushups, explosive pushups, explosive supports, and leg circles
ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
• It is a separate Olympic sport from rhythmic gymnastics

• Floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bars are
included in this men's gymnastics event
• This gymnastics event features women competing in floor exercise, vault,
uneven bars, and balance beam.
• It was introduced into gymnastics by Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths in
his 1793
• HORIZONTAL BAR-High bar is another name for this equipment.
• HORIZONTAL BAR-It is an apparatus used by male gymnasts in artistic gymnastics.
It traditionally consists of a cylindrical metal (typically steel) bar that is rigidly held
above and parallel to the floor by a system of cables and stiff vertical supports.
• PARALLEL BAR-Acrobats employed this event in artistic gymnastics in ancient
Greece and Rome, as well as during the Middle Ages.
• UNEVEN BAR-It is made of a steel frame. The bars are made of fiberglass with wood
coating, or less commonly wood.
• In early 1950s gymnastics, routines in this event mostly consisted of simple circles,
kips, and static balancing components and holds
• BALANCE BEAM-Both the apparatus and the event are sometimes simply
referred to as "beam".
• BALANCE BEAM- The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics
scoring is BB
• BALANCE BEAM- Bow is a term used to describe both the apparatus and
the occurrence
• Parallel Bar- In ancient Greece and Rome, as well as during the Middle Ages,
acrobats used this event in artistic gymnastics.
RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS
• It is traditionally used only by male Gymnasts
• This gymnastics event was originally featured at the 1896 Olympic Games
in Athens.
• It was created to distinguish freestyle performances from military drills.
ACROBATIC GYMNASTICS
• It is a competitive gymnastic discipline where partnerships of gymnasts

work together
FACT ABOUT GYMNASTICS
• The floor is a properly prepared workout surface that is considered an apparatus in
gymnastics. Gymnasts, both male and female, use it.
• A spring floor is used in all of gymnastics to provide more bounce, and also help prevent
potential injuries to lower extremity joints of gymnasts due to the nature of the apparatus
• Pommel horse is an artistic gymnastics.
• The rings, also known as steady rings or still rings.
• Due to its extreme upper body strength requirements. Gymnasts typically wear ring grips
while performing on the rings.
• The measurements of the standard apparatus are specified by Federation
Internationale de Gymnastique.
• An exercise on rings consists of swing, strength and hold elements
• Vault is an artistic gymnastics apparatus which gymnasts perform on.
• Early forms of the vault were invented by American.
• Parallel bars are floor apparatus consisting of two wooden bars slightly
over 11 feet (340 cm) long and positioned at roughly hand height. Parallel
bars are used in artistic gymnastics.
• The uneven bars or asymmetric bars is an artistic gymnastics apparatus
• Uneven bars used in international gymnastics competitions must conform
to the guidelines and specifications set forth by the International
Gymnastics Federation Apparatus Norms brochure
• balance beam is a rectangular artistic gymnastics apparatus and an event
performed using the apparatus
• The beam is a small, thin beam which is typically raised from the floor on
a leg or stand at both ends.
• The balance beam is only performed by female gymnasts

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GYMNASTICS

• A non-competitive classes available in General Gymnastics, Tumbling and

• It is a separate Olympic sport from rhythmic gymnastics

• It is a competitive gymnastic discipline where partnerships of gymnasts

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