体操是类运动项目的总称，在国际体操联合会中分为几个单项，竞技体操、艺术体操、蹦床、特技体操、有氧体操。

竞技体操分为男子六个项目：自由体操，鞍马，吊环，跳马，双杠，单杠；女子四个项目：跳马，高低杠，平衡木，自由体操。

Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring strength, flexibility, balance and control. Internationally, all events are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Each country has its own national governing body (BIW) affiliated to FIG. Competitive artistic gymnastics is the best known of the gymnastic events. It typically involves the women's events of vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. Men's events are floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and the high bar. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills.