Gymnastics | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/10/2019

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00:01:32 1 Etymology
00:02:07 2 History
00:05:11 3 FIG-recognized disciplines
00:05:25 3.1 Artistic gymnastics
00:07:22 3.1.1 Artistic events for women
00:07:32 3.1.1.1 Vault
00:09:26 3.1.1.2 Uneven bars
00:10:40 3.1.1.3 Balance beam
00:11:19 3.1.1.4 Floor
00:13:10 3.1.1.5 Scoring
00:13:57 3.1.2 Artistic events for men
00:14:06 3.1.2.1 Floor
00:14:44 3.1.2.2 Pommel horse
00:15:34 3.1.2.3 Still rings
00:16:04 3.1.2.4 Vault
00:16:53 3.1.2.5 Parallel bars
00:17:16 3.1.2.6 Horizontal bar
00:18:04 3.2 Rhythmic gymnastics
00:19:27 3.2.1 Rhythmic gymnastics apparatus
00:24:40 3.3 Trampolining
00:24:49 3.3.1 Trampolining
00:25:17 3.3.1.1 Individual trampoline
00:26:15 3.3.1.2 Synchronized trampoline
00:26:35 3.3.1.3 Double-mini trampoline
00:27:05 3.4 Tumbling
00:29:04 3.5 Acrobatic gymnastics
00:31:01 3.6 Aerobic gymnastics
00:32:08 3.7 Parkour
00:32:38 4 Other disciplines
00:32:54 4.1 Aesthetic group gymnastics
00:34:05 4.2 Men's rhythmic gymnastics
00:35:45 4.3 TeamGym
00:36:29 4.4 Wheel Gymnastics
00:37:00 4.5 Mallakhamba
00:37:40 5 Non-competitive gymnastics
00:38:31 6 Levels
00:39:04 7 Scoring (code of points)
00:40:22 7.1 Landing
00:41:50 8 Former apparatus and events
00:42:01 8.1 Rope climbing
00:42:14 8.2 Flying rings
00:42:52 8.3 Club Swinging
00:43:16 8.4 Other (men's artistic)
00:43:46 8.5 Other (women's artistic)
00:44:17 9 Health and safety
00:44:43 10 Popular culture
00:45:27 10.1 Books
00:45:36 10.2 Films
00:45:54 10.3 Television
00:46:03 10.4 Video games
00:46:13 11 See also



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SUMMARY
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Gymnastics is a sport that includes exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups. Alertness, precision, daring, self-confidence, and self-discipline are mental traits that can also be developed through gymnastics. 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 which consists of (for women) the events floor, vault, uneven bars and beam. For men, it consists of the events floor, vault, rings, pommel, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) is the governing body for gymnastics worldwide. FIG governs eight sports that include: "Gymnastics for All, Men's and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Trampoline - including Double Mini-trampoline, Tumbling, Aerobics, Acrobatics, and Parkour."  Disciplines not currently recognized by FIG include wheel gymnastics, aesthetic group gymnastics, men's rhythmic gymnastics, TeamGym and mallakhamba.
Participants in gymnastics-related sports can include young children, recreational level athletes, and competitive athletes at varying levels of skill, including world-class athletes.