Gymnastics vs. Ballet — What's the Difference?

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

Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.

(used with a pl. verb) Physical exercises designed to develop and display strength, balance, and agility, especially those performed on or with specialized apparatus.

A classical dance form characterized by grace and precision of movement and by elaborate formal gestures, steps, and poses.

(used with a sing. verb) The art or practice of such exercises.

A theatrical presentation of group or solo dancing to a musical accompaniment, usually with costume and scenic effects, conveying a story or theme.

Complex intellectual or artistic exercises

A musical composition written or used for this dance form.

(Informal) Feats of physical agility

A classical form of dance.

A sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness.

A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.

Complex intellectual or artistic exercises or feats of physical agility.

The company of persons who perform this dance.

Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises.

(music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.

Disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.

A (small) ball i.e. roundel on a coat of arms, called a bezant, plate, etc., according to colour.

Feats demonstrating a quick mental agility; as, mental gymnastics, verbal gymnastics.

(figurative) Any intricate series of operations involving coordination between individuals.

A sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility

To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.

An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.

The company of persons who perform the ballet.

A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, - most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers; - also spelled ballett.

A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers

Music written for a ballet