Back عارضة التوازن Arabic Viga d'equilibriu AST Греда (гимнастика) Bulgarian Greda (gimnastika) BS Barra d'equilibri Catalan Kladina Czech Trawst (gymnasteg) Welsh Bom (redskabsgymnastik) Danish Schwebebalken German Viga de equilibrio Spanish
The balance beam is a rectangular artistic gymnastics apparatus and an event performed using the apparatus. Both the apparatus and the event are sometimes simply referred to as "beam". The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is BB. The balance beam is only performed competitively by female gymnasts.