acrobatic gymnastics
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competitive sport involving acrobatics and gymnastics
Key facts
- Highest governing body
- World Gymnastics
- First contested
- Soviet Union, 1930s
- Contact
- Not with opponents
- Mixed sex
- No (except mixed pairs)
- Type
- Gymnastics sport
- Country or region
- Worldwide
- Olympic
- No
- World games
- 1993 – 2021
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Women's pair Men's four Mixed pair in one-arm flag
Acrobatic gymnastics is a competitive discipline of gymnastics where partnerships of gymnasts work together and perform routines consisting of acrobatic skills, dance and tumbling, set to music. The sport is governed by World Gymnastics. There are three types of routines: a 'balance' routine, where the focus is on strength, poise and flexibility; a 'dynamic' routine, which includes throws, somersaults and catches, and a 'combined' routine which includes elements from both balance and dynamic.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “acrobatic gymnastics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.