Synchronized swimming or artistic swimming is a sport where swimmers perform a synchronized choreographed routine, accompanied by music. The sport is governed internationally by World Aquatics. It has traditionally been a women's sport, although FINA introduced a new mixed gender duet competition that included one male swimmer in each duet at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships and LEN introduced men's individual events at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships. From 2024, men will be able to compete in the team event at the Olympics.
Czech synchronized swimming team performing a free routine combination in 2013
A member of the Japanese team is thrown up in the air during the team's free routine at the 2013 French Open.
Wu Yiwen and Huang Xuechen of China perform during the duet technical routine at the 2013 French Open.
A mixed-sex pair, participating in FINA World Championships of synchronised swimming, waves to the crowd before diving into water.
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies in which motion or form or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who creates choreographies by practising the art of choreography, a process known as choreographing. It most commonly refers to dance choreography.
Choreography for the Spanish dance Cachucha, described using dance notation
One of the first documents with choreographic signs is the Catalan manuscript of Cervera from 1496
