A post-compensation method for motion errors of a rotating accelerometer gravity gradiometer includes the steps of: during moving-base gravity gradient exploration, recording angular and linear motions of a gravity gradiometer; after the exploration, removing angular and linear motion errors from output data of the gravity gradiometer based on an analytical model of the rotating accelerometer gravity gradiometer; while ensuring that the precision of the gravity gradiometer is unchanged, the post-compensation method for the motion errors may be applied to greatly reduce the requirements of the gravity gradiometer for the precision of an online error compensation system, thereby simplifying the circuit design and mechanical design of the rotary accelerometer gravity gradiometer, and making the rotating accelerometer gravity gradiometer simpler and cheaper.