Provided are a method and an apparatus for recognizing a gesture, an electronic device and a storage medium. In one or more embodiments, the method includes: detecting at least one hand region from a video image and obtaining hand image information of each of the at least one hand region; obtaining hand motion information of each of the at least one hand region by tracking the at least one hand region; determining a gesture corresponding to each of the at least one hand region according to the hand image information and/or the hand motion information of each of the at least one hand region; wherein the gesture comprises at least one of a single-hand static gesture, a single-hand dynamic gesture, a double-hand static gesture or a double-hand dynamic gesture.