Artistic Gymnastics typically involves the women's events of uneven parallel bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and vault. Men's events include high bar, parallel bars, still rings, floor exercise, vault, and pommel horse.

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.