diff --git a/stable_baselines3/a2c/a2c.py b/stable_baselines3/a2c/a2c.py
index 718571f0c..64846bd18 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/a2c/a2c.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/a2c/a2c.py
@@ -5,10 +5,12 @@
 from torch.nn import functional as F
 
 from stable_baselines3.common.buffers import RolloutBuffer
+from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import MaybeCallback
 from stable_baselines3.common.on_policy_algorithm import OnPolicyAlgorithm
 from stable_baselines3.common.policies import ActorCriticCnnPolicy, ActorCriticPolicy, BasePolicy, MultiInputActorCriticPolicy
-from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import GymEnv, MaybeCallback, Schedule
+from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import Schedule
 from stable_baselines3.common.utils import explained_variance
+from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import GymEnv
 
 SelfA2C = TypeVar("SelfA2C", bound="A2C")
 
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/common/base_class.py b/stable_baselines3/common/base_class.py
index 5e8759990..cb9438a9e 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/common/base_class.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/common/base_class.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 from gymnasium import spaces
 
 from stable_baselines3.common import utils
-from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import BaseCallback, CallbackList, ConvertCallback, ProgressBarCallback
+from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import BaseCallback, CallbackList, ConvertCallback, MaybeCallback, ProgressBarCallback
 from stable_baselines3.common.env_util import is_wrapped
 from stable_baselines3.common.logger import Logger
 from stable_baselines3.common.monitor import Monitor
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 from stable_baselines3.common.policies import BasePolicy
 from stable_baselines3.common.preprocessing import check_for_nested_spaces, is_image_space, is_image_space_channels_first
 from stable_baselines3.common.save_util import load_from_zip_file, recursive_getattr, recursive_setattr, save_to_zip_file
-from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import GymEnv, MaybeCallback, Schedule, TensorDict
+from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import Schedule, TensorDict
 from stable_baselines3.common.utils import (
     check_for_correct_spaces,
     get_device,
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 )
 from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import (
     DummyVecEnv,
+    GymEnv,
     VecEnv,
     VecNormalize,
     VecTransposeImage,
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/common/callbacks.py b/stable_baselines3/common/callbacks.py
index 5089bba2b..a604524d4 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/common/callbacks.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/common/callbacks.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import os
 import warnings
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
-from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Union
 
 import gymnasium as gym
 import numpy as np
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@
     # if the progress bar is used
     tqdm = None
 
-from stable_baselines3.common import base_class
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from stable_baselines3.common import base_class
+
 from stable_baselines3.common.evaluation import evaluate_policy
 from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import DummyVecEnv, VecEnv, sync_envs_normalization
 
@@ -704,3 +706,6 @@ def _on_training_end(self) -> None:
         # Flush and close progress bar
         self.pbar.refresh()
         self.pbar.close()
+
+
+MaybeCallback = Union[None, Callable, List[BaseCallback], BaseCallback]
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/common/off_policy_algorithm.py b/stable_baselines3/common/off_policy_algorithm.py
index e8dcac4a4..981b742c3 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/common/off_policy_algorithm.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/common/off_policy_algorithm.py
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@
 
 from stable_baselines3.common.base_class import BaseAlgorithm
 from stable_baselines3.common.buffers import DictReplayBuffer, ReplayBuffer
-from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import BaseCallback
+from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import BaseCallback, MaybeCallback
 from stable_baselines3.common.noise import ActionNoise, VectorizedActionNoise
 from stable_baselines3.common.policies import BasePolicy
 from stable_baselines3.common.save_util import load_from_pkl, save_to_pkl
-from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import GymEnv, MaybeCallback, RolloutReturn, Schedule, TrainFreq, TrainFrequencyUnit
+from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import RolloutReturn, Schedule, TrainFreq, TrainFrequencyUnit
 from stable_baselines3.common.utils import safe_mean, should_collect_more_steps
-from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import VecEnv
+from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import GymEnv, VecEnv
 from stable_baselines3.her.her_replay_buffer import HerReplayBuffer
 
 SelfOffPolicyAlgorithm = TypeVar("SelfOffPolicyAlgorithm", bound="OffPolicyAlgorithm")
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/common/on_policy_algorithm.py b/stable_baselines3/common/on_policy_algorithm.py
index dc2b5abd0..c9f93ef40 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/common/on_policy_algorithm.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/common/on_policy_algorithm.py
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@
 
 from stable_baselines3.common.base_class import BaseAlgorithm
 from stable_baselines3.common.buffers import DictRolloutBuffer, RolloutBuffer
-from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import BaseCallback
+from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import BaseCallback, MaybeCallback
 from stable_baselines3.common.policies import ActorCriticPolicy
-from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import GymEnv, MaybeCallback, Schedule
+from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import Schedule
 from stable_baselines3.common.utils import obs_as_tensor, safe_mean
-from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import VecEnv
+from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import GymEnv, VecEnv
 
 SelfOnPolicyAlgorithm = TypeVar("SelfOnPolicyAlgorithm", bound="OnPolicyAlgorithm")
 
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/common/type_aliases.py b/stable_baselines3/common/type_aliases.py
index 2f98ee198..ddcb33120 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/common/type_aliases.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/common/type_aliases.py
@@ -1,15 +1,11 @@
 """Common aliases for type hints"""
 
 from enum import Enum
-from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, NamedTuple, Optional, Protocol, SupportsFloat, Tuple, Union
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, NamedTuple, Optional, Protocol, SupportsFloat, Tuple, Union
 
-import gymnasium as gym
 import numpy as np
 import torch as th
 
-from stable_baselines3.common import callbacks, vec_env
-
-GymEnv = Union[gym.Env, vec_env.VecEnv]
 GymObs = Union[Tuple, Dict[str, Any], np.ndarray, int]
 GymResetReturn = Tuple[GymObs, Dict]
 AtariResetReturn = Tuple[np.ndarray, Dict[str, Any]]
@@ -17,7 +13,6 @@
 AtariStepReturn = Tuple[np.ndarray, SupportsFloat, bool, bool, Dict[str, Any]]
 TensorDict = Dict[str, th.Tensor]
 OptimizerStateDict = Dict[str, Any]
-MaybeCallback = Union[None, Callable, List[callbacks.BaseCallback], callbacks.BaseCallback]
 
 # A schedule takes the remaining progress as input
 # and ouputs a scalar (e.g. learning rate, clip range, ...)
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/common/utils.py b/stable_baselines3/common/utils.py
index 4950822d4..7b74f3093 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/common/utils.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/common/utils.py
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
     SummaryWriter = None  # type: ignore[misc, assignment]
 
 from stable_baselines3.common.logger import Logger, configure
-from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import GymEnv, Schedule, TensorDict, TrainFreq, TrainFrequencyUnit
+from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import Schedule, TensorDict, TrainFreq, TrainFrequencyUnit
+from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import GymEnv
 
 
 def set_random_seed(seed: int, using_cuda: bool = False) -> None:
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/common/vec_env/__init__.py b/stable_baselines3/common/vec_env/__init__.py
index 2c036373a..ce25ed807 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/common/vec_env/__init__.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/common/vec_env/__init__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-import typing
 from copy import deepcopy
 from typing import Optional, Type, Union
 
-from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env.base_vec_env import CloudpickleWrapper, VecEnv, VecEnvWrapper
+from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env.base_vec_env import CloudpickleWrapper, GymEnv, VecEnv, VecEnvWrapper
 from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env.dummy_vec_env import DummyVecEnv
 from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env.stacked_observations import StackedObservations
 from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env.subproc_vec_env import SubprocVecEnv
@@ -14,10 +13,6 @@
 from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env.vec_transpose import VecTransposeImage
 from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env.vec_video_recorder import VecVideoRecorder
 
-# Avoid circular import
-if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import GymEnv
-
 
 def unwrap_vec_wrapper(env: Union["GymEnv", VecEnv], vec_wrapper_class: Type[VecEnvWrapper]) -> Optional[VecEnvWrapper]:
     """
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/common/vec_env/base_vec_env.py b/stable_baselines3/common/vec_env/base_vec_env.py
index 5e06a5c0c..41f350cfc 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/common/vec_env/base_vec_env.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/common/vec_env/base_vec_env.py
@@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ def _get_indices(self, indices: VecEnvIndices) -> Iterable[int]:
         return indices
 
 
+GymEnv = Union[gym.Env, VecEnv]
+
+
 class VecEnvWrapper(VecEnv):
     """
     Vectorized environment base class
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/ddpg/ddpg.py b/stable_baselines3/ddpg/ddpg.py
index c311b2357..4d457dee8 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/ddpg/ddpg.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/ddpg/ddpg.py
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@
 import torch as th
 
 from stable_baselines3.common.buffers import ReplayBuffer
+from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import MaybeCallback
 from stable_baselines3.common.noise import ActionNoise
-from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import GymEnv, MaybeCallback, Schedule
+from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import Schedule
+from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import GymEnv
 from stable_baselines3.td3.policies import TD3Policy
 from stable_baselines3.td3.td3 import TD3
 
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/dqn/dqn.py b/stable_baselines3/dqn/dqn.py
index 42e3d0df0..611a4d6ec 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/dqn/dqn.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/dqn/dqn.py
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@
 from torch.nn import functional as F
 
 from stable_baselines3.common.buffers import ReplayBuffer
+from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import MaybeCallback
 from stable_baselines3.common.off_policy_algorithm import OffPolicyAlgorithm
 from stable_baselines3.common.policies import BasePolicy
-from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import GymEnv, MaybeCallback, Schedule
+from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import Schedule
 from stable_baselines3.common.utils import get_linear_fn, get_parameters_by_name, polyak_update
+from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import GymEnv
 from stable_baselines3.dqn.policies import CnnPolicy, DQNPolicy, MlpPolicy, MultiInputPolicy, QNetwork
 
 SelfDQN = TypeVar("SelfDQN", bound="DQN")
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/ppo/ppo.py b/stable_baselines3/ppo/ppo.py
index ea7cf5ed4..511677587 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/ppo/ppo.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/ppo/ppo.py
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@
 from torch.nn import functional as F
 
 from stable_baselines3.common.buffers import RolloutBuffer
+from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import MaybeCallback
 from stable_baselines3.common.on_policy_algorithm import OnPolicyAlgorithm
 from stable_baselines3.common.policies import ActorCriticCnnPolicy, ActorCriticPolicy, BasePolicy, MultiInputActorCriticPolicy
-from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import GymEnv, MaybeCallback, Schedule
+from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import Schedule
 from stable_baselines3.common.utils import explained_variance, get_schedule_fn
+from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import GymEnv
 
 SelfPPO = TypeVar("SelfPPO", bound="PPO")
 
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/sac/sac.py b/stable_baselines3/sac/sac.py
index bf0fa5028..2f1e5461b 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/sac/sac.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/sac/sac.py
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@
 from torch.nn import functional as F
 
 from stable_baselines3.common.buffers import ReplayBuffer
+from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import MaybeCallback
 from stable_baselines3.common.noise import ActionNoise
 from stable_baselines3.common.off_policy_algorithm import OffPolicyAlgorithm
 from stable_baselines3.common.policies import BasePolicy, ContinuousCritic
-from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import GymEnv, MaybeCallback, Schedule
+from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import Schedule
 from stable_baselines3.common.utils import get_parameters_by_name, polyak_update
+from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import GymEnv
 from stable_baselines3.sac.policies import Actor, CnnPolicy, MlpPolicy, MultiInputPolicy, SACPolicy
 
 SelfSAC = TypeVar("SelfSAC", bound="SAC")
diff --git a/stable_baselines3/td3/td3.py b/stable_baselines3/td3/td3.py
index a06ce67e0..391a8728a 100644
--- a/stable_baselines3/td3/td3.py
+++ b/stable_baselines3/td3/td3.py
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@
 from torch.nn import functional as F
 
 from stable_baselines3.common.buffers import ReplayBuffer
+from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import MaybeCallback
 from stable_baselines3.common.noise import ActionNoise
 from stable_baselines3.common.off_policy_algorithm import OffPolicyAlgorithm
 from stable_baselines3.common.policies import BasePolicy, ContinuousCritic
-from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import GymEnv, MaybeCallback, Schedule
+from stable_baselines3.common.type_aliases import Schedule
 from stable_baselines3.common.utils import get_parameters_by_name, polyak_update
+from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env import GymEnv
 from stable_baselines3.td3.policies import Actor, CnnPolicy, MlpPolicy, MultiInputPolicy, TD3Policy
 
 SelfTD3 = TypeVar("SelfTD3", bound="TD3")