Gymnastics

Gymnastics is an acrobatic sport which requires strength, agility and co-ordination.

See Also:: Trampolining

An Overview of Gymnastics

Gymnastics covers many different disciplines.

All are skilled and challenging and require physical strength, agility and co-ordination. Under the overall description of gymnastics lie the individual disciplines and activities of:

Men's artistic Gymnastics (includes high bar, parallel bars, rings, floor, vault and pommel horse)
Women's Artistic gymnastics (includes uneven bars, beam, floor and vault)
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Trampoline and Tumbling Gymnastics
Acrobatic Gymnastics

British Gymnastics provides a national directive and structure for the sport; delivering a range of opportunities across the age spectrum to take part and stay in gymnastics, as well as developing talent and delivering top-level success.

Gymnastics is an accessible and inclusive sport offering opportunities to all ability levels and ethnic groups within a range of controlled learning environments. It promotes an active and healthy lifestyle and is recognised as forming the basis for physical literacy by developing fundamental movement skills.

Benefits

Flexibility
Balance
Coordination
Concentration

Costs

Whether it's bouncing on a trampoline, doing cartwheels or hanging from monkey bars, you can work on your gymnastics for free!

Facts

Team GB won 4 medals in the artistic gymnastics at London 2012.

Contact your local Physical Activity, Health & Wellbeing Team

Across Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland the Physical Activity, Health & Wellbeing Teams are providing opportunities to support you to become more active.

Daily Boost

The Daily Boost aims to encourage children and young people to do 15 minutes of organised activity at school every day, benefiting their long-term physical and mental health and wellbeing.

Let's Get Moving for Less!

A one-stop shop for free/low-cost opportunities to be active within Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.

This Girl Can

No one gets to choose how you exercise other than you. Your body, your call. And whatever that looks like, we think it’s worth celebrating. This Girl Can, funded by The National Lottery, believes th

Ratae Gymnastics Club

Spence Street Sports Centre

Spence Street Sports Centre offers swimming facilities, a gym and sports classes.

Hinckley Gymnastics Club

The club’s mission is to provide the community with opportunities for betterment in health, education, sport and culture. Through GYMNASTICS and its core activities they aim to bring together members of the local and sporting community to share the bene

Active Leicester

Active Leicester encompasses all sports in the city.

Aylestone Leisure Centre

Aylestone Leisure Centre offers activities in our sports halls, together with our 3G football pitch, swimming pools and gym.

New College Gymnastics Centre

Sir Jonathan North Community College

Sir Jonathan North College is an Outstanding all girls College based in Leicester.

Soar Valley Trampoline Club

Si Sports Ltd

A leading sports provider of quality P.E. and alternative education in Leicestershire.

Ravenhurst Primary School

We are a Leicestershire Primary School with 519 children on roll - aged 4 to 11. We do a range activities such as Activate, The Daily Mile, BBC Supermovers, Go Noodle and HBSSPAN Virtual Challenges.

Charnwood Trampoline Club

Leicester Leys Leisure Centre

This centre has a leisure pool with wave machine, activity pool and a toddlers and baby pool, as well as a climbing wall, gym and facilities for many other activities.

Super Star Sport Midlands

Founded in 2011, Super Star Sport is a coaching organisation that prides itself in delivering fun, high quality sports sessions in both nursery and primary school settings.

Tudor Grange Samworth Academy

Tudor Grange Samworth Academy is an all through school. We have a wide range of sporting opportunities for all students in the Primary and Secondary phases. The school also welcomes the community as we take bookings in the evenings and weekends.

Highcliffe Primary School

Primary school based in Birstall, Leicestershire

Oadby And Leicester Gymnastics Club

Latimer Primary School

Gold Kitemark Primary School. Daily Mile in some classes. GoNoodle whole school. Active breaks throughout the day and school.

Metcalf Multisports

Metcalf Multisports is a sports company with over 15 years experience in primary schools, coaching a variety of sports. We have an approachable and punctual manner and are able to adapt to any environment.

Langmoor Primary School

Primary School

Step Out Youth Group

STEP OUT is South Wigston Youth Club offers children different activities in a safe area. Ages 8 till 16.

Meets Tuesday 6-730 pm
Thursday 6-7.30 pm

Rocket Youth Sports

We are a new kind of children’s sports coaching in Leicester and Leicestershire. Our Leicester kids classes, including Gymnastics, Ninja Kids, Cheerleading, Street Dance and multi-sports. We always aim to have fun, develop children’s sports sk

Oadby Gymnastics Club

Gartree High School

High school offering a wide range of extra-curricular sport opportunity.

SFK Multisports

We are a Health and Activity Organisation offering our services to communities, schools and the private sector. Our activities including sports clubs, physical education, residential sports, holiday camps and other health and wellness programmes.

Active Blaby

Active Blaby is your local service to help people become more active. We work hard to give people the capability, opportunity and/or motivation to add a bit more movement into their daily lives.

Greenfield Primary School

Greenfield Primary School- a primary school in Countesthorpe for children from pre-school age to Year 6.

Little Gems Pre-School

Huncote GTC Club

Rocket Youth Sports

We are fun children's sport. We run classes, clubs and camps for kids our sports include gymnastics, ninja kids, multi-sports and more!

Croft Church of England Primary School

Croft Church Of England Primary School is a small, family feel school who believe in a holistic approach to education so health and well being feature highly in our curriculum offer.