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Gymnastics in other Languages

The sport we know as gymnastics is not necessarily called by the same name around the world. Here are the names for gymnastics in many of the languages of the world. The names are taken from the Wikipedia page for gymnastics in each of these languages. You will notice that many of the names appear to be phonetic spelling of gymnastics in the other languages.



Name by Language

Language Name for the sport of gymnastics
Afrikaans Gimnastiek
Albanian Gjimnastika
Arabic جمباز
Armenian Մարմնամարզություն
Asturian Ximnasia
Azerbaijani Gimnastika
Bashkir Гимнастика
Basque Gimnastika
Belarusian Гімнастыка
Bengali জিমন্যাস্টিকস
Bosnian Gimnastika
Bulgarian Гимнастика
Cantonese 體操
Catalan Gimnàstica
Chinese 体操
Croatian Gimnastika
Czech Gymnastika
Danish Gymnastik
Dutch Gymnastiek (sport)
Eastern Punjabi ਜਿਮਨਾਸਟਿਕ
Egyptian Arabic جمباز
English Gymnastics
Esperanto Gimnastiko
Estonian Võimlemine
Finnish Voimistelu
French Gymnastique
Galician Ximnasia
Georgian ტანვარჯიში
German Gymnastik
Greek Γυμναστική
Haitian Jimnastik
Hebrew התעמלות
Hindi जिम्नास्टिक्स
Hungarian Torna
Icelandic Fimleikar
Ido Gimnastiko
Indonesian Senam
Italian Ginnastica
Japanese 体操
Javanese Senam
Kazakh Гимнастика
Korean 체조
Kyrgyz Гимнастика
Lak Гимнастика
Latin Gymnastica
Latvian Vingrošana
Lezgian Гимнастика
Lithuanian Gimnastika
Macedonian Гимнастика
Malay Gimnastik
Malayalam ജിംനാസ്റ്റിക്സ്
Marathi जिम्नॅस्टिक्स
Meadow Mari Гимнастике
Min Nan Thé-chhau
Northern Sotho Dithobollo
Norwegian Gymnastikk
Norwegian Gymnastikk
Novial Gimnastike
Occitan Gimnastica
Persian ژیمناستیک
Polish Gimnastyka
Portuguese Ginástica
Romanian Gimnastică
Russian Гимнастика
Sanskrit दाक्षम्
Serbian Гимнастика
Serbo-Croatian Gimnastika
Sicilian Ginnàstica
Slovak Gymnastika
Slovene Gimnastika
Spanish Gimnasia
Swahili Jimnastiki
Swedish Gymnastik
Tamil சீருடற்பயிற்சிகள்
Tatar Гимнастика
Telugu జిమ్నాస్టిక్స్
Thai ยิมนาสติก
Turkish Jimnastik
Ukrainian Гімнастика
Urdu جمناسٹک
Uzbek Gimnastika
Vietnamese Thể dục dụng cụ
Walloon Djimlastike
Welsh Gymnasteg
Western Punjabi جمناسٹک


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