Gymnastics is a sport that includes physical exercises. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups.

All gymnasts compete in the Team competition, with the score calculated by adding the best 10 scores from the three competing athletes. Each athlete may perform a maximum of four routines and not more than one with each piece of activity.

While there's only one gymnast, they can perform under the six types of gymnastics: Artistic, Rhythmic, Trampoline, Power Tumbling, Acrobatics, and Aerobics.

• Artistic: a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses.
• Rhythmic: a sport in which gymnasts perform on a floor with an apparatus: hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon or rope. The sport combines elements of gymnastics, dance and calisthenics.
• Trampoline: a recreational activity, acrobatic training tool as well as a competitive Olympic sport in which athletes perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline.
• Power Tumbling: a gymnastics discipline in which participants perform a series of acrobatic skills down a 25 meters long sprung track.
• Acrobatics: a gymnastic discipline where partnerships of gymnasts work together and perform figures consisting of acrobatic moves, dance and tumbling, set to music.
• Aerobics: a competitive sport originating from traditional aerobics in which complex, high-intensity movement patterns and elements of varying difficulty are performed to music.

The modern sport of gymnastics typically involves exercises on uneven bars, balance beam, floor, and vaulting horse (for women), and horizontal and parallel bars, rings, floor, and pommel horse (for men).

Simone Arianne Biles is an American artistic gymnast. With a combined total of 32 Olympic and World Championship medals, Biles is tied as the most decorated gymnast of all time. Biles' seven Olympic medals also ties Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals won by an American gymnast.