Gymnastics is a kind of physical exercise with bare hands or instruments. Beautiful moments of gymnastics (16 pictures) "Gymnastics: originated from ancient Greek, and its Italian is" naked skill ",because they were all practicing naked at that time and were later adopted by European and American countries. China is called "gymnastics". Its meaning and content vary with the changes of the times. Modern gymnastics originated in the 18th and 19th centuries. At that time, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and other gymnastics schools appeared in Europe, which not only promoted the further development of gymnastics, but also laid the foundation for the formation of modern gymnastics. Gymnastics was listed as an official event in Helsinki Olympic Games in 1952. At present, there are world cup, world championship and Olympic Games gymnastics competitions in the world. International and domestic large-scale gymnastics competitions generally include three different and interrelated competitions, namely, team competition, individual all-around competition and individual competition.

Modern gymnastics was introduced into China after the Opium War in 184, when gymnastics was very backward and there were no mass gymnastics activities. At the end of the late Qing Dynasty, gymnastics was set up in the "foreign schools", in the schools reformed and developed by the reformists, and in the educational curriculum standards reformed by the bourgeoisie during the period of the Chinese Revolution. As an urgent requirement for the all-round development of education or human rights and the development of national salvation, it can be said that it is the predecessor of physical education class today. However, only in the third National Games in 1924 did a national gymnastics performance with incomplete events be held for several decades. At present, China's gymnastics has made rapid progress and has become one of the main events to win gold. In the 28 Beijing Olympic Games, China won 14 medals and 9 gold medals in gymnastics. Among them, the China Women's Gymnastics Team won the women's gymnastics team gold medal for the first time on August 13th, 28.

At present, competitive gymnastics includes five sports: competitive gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, aerobics, acrobatics and trampoline. Among them, the men's competitive gymnastics events include floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar, while the women's events include vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise. Because competitive gymnastics has the longest history, it can be said that it is the "big brother" in competitive gymnastics, so people are usually used to calling it "competitive gymnastics" now.