gym

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm
• Homophone: Jim

Noun

gym (plural gyms)

1. Short form of gymnasium.
2. (weightlifting) A sports facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise.
   • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii

     Working out in commercial gyms, if anything, made my workouts worse instead of better.

3. physical education class

Synonyms

• (sports facility for exercise): fitness center, health club, sports club

Derived terms

• gym knickers
• gym muscles
• gym rat
• gym shoe
• gymslip

Related terms

• gymnasium
• gymnast
• gymnastics

Translations

short form of gymnasium — see gymnasium

sporting facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise

• Arabic: صالة رياضية f (ṣāla riyaḍíyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體育館, 体育馆 (zh) (tǐyùguǎn), 健身房 (zh) (jiànshēnfáng)

• Czech: posilovna f
• Dutch: sportschool (nl) m
• Finnish: sali (colloquial), kuntosali (fi), punttisali
• French: salle de gymnastique (fr) f, gym (fr) m, gymnase (fr) m
• Galician: ximnasio (gl) m
• German: Gymnastikraum m, Fitnessstudio (de) n, Turnhalle (de) f
• Greek: γυμναστήριο (el) n (gymnastírio)
• Italian: palestra (it) f
• Japanese: 体育館 (ja) (たいいくかん, taiikukan), ジム (ja) (jimu)

• Korean: 체육관 (ko) (cheyukgwan)
• Macedonian: вежбална f (vežbálna), теретана f (teretána)
• Polish: siłownia (pl) f
• Portuguese: academia (pt) f
• Russian: тренажёрный зал m (trenažórnyj zal), гимнастический зал m (gimnastíčeskij zal), спортзал (ru) m (sportzál), джим m (džim)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: теретана f, вежбаоница f

  Roman: teretana (sh) f, vežbaonica f

• Swedish: gym (sv) n
• Volapük: turöp

physical education class

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• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} гимназия f (gimnazija)
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} telocvičňa f

Verb

gym (third-person singular simple present gyms, present participle gyming, simple past and past participle gymed)

1. (intransitive) To go to the gym.

   On Wednesdays I hike; on Fridays I gym.

Anagrams

• YGM

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

gym n (plural gymmen, diminutive gymmetje n)

1. short for gymnasium, a special type of secondary school

Noun

gym m (uncountable)

1. short for gymnastiek, physical education class

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Norwegian

Noun

gym m

1. gymnastics

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Swedish

Noun

gym n

1. gym; a sporting facility specialized on exercising strength, lifting weights.

Declension

Declension of gym

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gym	gymmet	gym	gymmen
genitive	gyms	gymmets	gyms	gymmens