Gymnast

A gymnast is an athlete that trains in, practices, and participates in the sport of gymnastics, that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills. The most common form of competitive gymnastics is artistic gymnastics (AG), which consists of, for women (WAG), the events floor, vault, uneven bars, and beam; and for men (MAG), the events floor, vault, rings, pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. Participants in gymnastics-related sports include young children, recreational-level athletes, and competitive athletes at all levels of skill.