Gymnastic formation

In the United States of America, journalists sometimes use the expression “mass gymnastics” especially to represent annual festival of the North Korea.

In Czechoslovakia (country name of that time), large-scale gymnastic formation of thousands of figurants was exhibited up to 1985.

In Japan, gymnastic formation of hundreds of participants is performed up to the present in annual sports festivals of schools and colleges.

Today, it is seem in limited countries and territories, such as Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brazil, Philippines, and North Korea.

Gymnastic formation has general objective of demonstration of force, passion, and union of the participants and not a modality to dispute championship.

In Japanese schools, gymnastic formation are performed as part of physical education events.