The history of gymnastics is extremely long because gymnastics was practiced by Greek people back in the old age. Throughout the history, the role of gymnastics changed but gymnastics maintained as a sport until today and it is considered one of the most popular and most appreciated sports in the world nowadays. Gymnastics is divided into: gymnastics for all, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline gymnastics, acrobatic gymnastics, aerobic gymnastics and parkour. Each discipline of gymnastics has its own rules, specialties, good and bad sides that makes it special, divided discipline of gymnastics. The most popular disciplines are artistic and rhythmic gymnastics. Gymnastics, in general, is considered a type of sports that affects all anthropological characteristics that are crucial for everyday living. There are numerous researches showing how gymnastics has a positive impact to most of anthropological characteristics, especially on the development of motor skills. While developing motor skills, it is very important to pick the right physical activities for pupils, and that is of course, up to a teacher, to make the right choice. It is no news that the teachers have a very big and important role in student’s life. That’s why the teacher can also affect a lot on student’s perception of sport, athlete’s way of life, everyday physical activity but also on the decision of picking the right sport for themselves. With all that said, there’s a great responsibility for teachers to do that right. Gymnastics has many positive sides and affects, and I believe it can be very interesting for pupils. It is up to teachers to find a way how to bring gymnastics closer to pupils and to motivate them to choose gymnastics as everyday physical activity.