| Event: | Gymnastics |
| Games: | 1978 Asian Games |
| Venue: | National Gymnasium |
| Dates: | 9–11 December 1978 |
| Prev: | 1974 |
| Next: | 1982 |
Gymnastics was contested at the 1978 Asian Games, held in Bangkok, Thailand from December 9, 1978, to December 11, 1978. Only artistic events were contested.
| Team | Cai Huanzong Huang Yubin Li Yuejiu Pan Chenfei Peng Yaping Xiong Songliang | Nobuyuki Kajitani Junichi Kitagawa Toshiomi Nishikii Teruichi Okamura Shinzo Shiraishi Haruyasu Taguchi | Cho Tai-ho Kim Hwi-chul Kwon Oh-suk Lee Dae-haeng Lee Young-taik Shin Jong-soon |
| Individual all-around | |||
| Floor | |||
| Pommel horse | |||
| Rings | Shared gold | ||
| Vault | |||
| Parallel bars | |||
| Horizontal bar | Shared silver | ||
| Team | He Xiumin Liu Yajun Ma Wenju Ma Yanhong Wang Ping Zhu Zheng | Choe Jong-sil Jong Hyang-suk Kim Chun-pil Kim Chun-son Ri Yong-ok Sin Myong-ok | Yayoi Kano Nobuko Kasai Yoshiko Matsumoto Maki Matsuya Noriko Okazaki Ayako Saito | |
| Individual all-around | Shared silver | |||
| Vault | ||||
| Uneven bars | ||||
| Balance beam | ||||
| Floor |