gym

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪm/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪm
• Homophone: Jim

Noun

gym (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymnasium.

   I'm off to the gym for my pilates class.

2. (uncountable) clipping of gymnastics. (often as sense 4)
3. (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.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Pete, I want to work out. Where is the gym?

     Audio (US)

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4. physical education class

   The gym teacher at our school makes us stretch before and after each 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
• jim (humorous)

Translations

short form of gymnasium — see gymnasium

sporting facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise

• Afrikaans: gimnasium (af)
• Arabic: صَالَة رِيَاضِيَّة‎ f (ṣāla riyāḍiyya)

  Hijazi Arabic: نادي‎ m (nādi)

• Armenian: մարզասրահ (hy) (marzasrah), ջիմ (hy) (ǰim)
• Azerbaijani: idman zalı, idman zalı
• Belarusian: спартза́ла f (spartzála), трэнажо́рная за́ла f (trenažórnaja zála), спарты́ўная за́ла f (spartýŭnaja zála)
• Bulgarian: гимнасти́чески сало́н m (gimnastíčeski salón)
• Burmese: အားကစားရုံ (a:ka.ca:rum)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: posilovna (cs) f, posilka f (colloquial), tělocvična (cs) f
• Danish: fitnesscenter n, træningscenter n
• Dutch: sportschool (nl) f
• Esperanto: sportejo, trejnejo
• Estonian: jõusaal, võimla
• Faroese: venjingarhøli n
• Finnish: sali (fi) (colloquial), kuntosali (fi), punttisali
• French: salle de gymnastique (fr) f, gym (fr) m, gymnase (fr) m, salle de sport (fr) f, salle de muscu f, salle (fr) f
• Galician: ximnasio (gl) m
• Georgian: სატრენაჟორო დარბაზი (saṭrenažoro darbazi)
• German: Fitnessstudio (de) n, Gym n (slang), Turnhalle (de) f, Gymnastikraum (de) m
• Greek: γυμναστήριο (el) n (gymnastírio)
• Hebrew: חֲדַר כֹּשֶׁר‎ m (ẖadár kósher), מְכוֹן כֹּשֶׁר‎ m (machón kósher)

• Hungarian: edzőterem (hu)
• Icelandic: líkamsræktarstöð f
• Irish: ionad aclaíochta m, seomra aclaíochta m
• Italian: palestra (it) f
• Japanese: 体育館 (ja) (たいいくかん, taiikukan), ジム (ja) (jimu)
• Korean: 체육관(體育館) (ko) (cheyukgwan), 헬스클럽 (helseukeulleop)
• Latvian: vingrošanas zāle f, trenažieru zāle f
• Lithuanian: sporto salė f
• Macedonian: вежба́лна f (vežbálna), терета́на f (teretána)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: treningssenter n

  Nynorsk: treningssenter n

• Polish: siłka (pl) f, siłownia (pl) f
• Portuguese: academia (pt) f
• Russian: гимнасти́ческий зал m (gimnastíčeskij zal), спортза́л (ru) m (sportzál), джим (ru) m (džim), тренажёрный зал m (trenažórnyj zal), (colloquial) кача́лка (ru) f (kačálka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гимнастичка сала f, терета̀на f, вежбаоница f

  Roman: gimnastička sala f, vežbaonica (sh) f, teretana (sh) f

• Slovak: telocvičňa f, posilňovňa f, posilka f (colloquial)
• Slovene: fitnes m
• Spanish: gimnasio (es) m
• Swedish: gym (sv) n
• Ukrainian: тренаже́рний зал (uk) m (trenažérnyj zal), спорти́вна за́ла f (sportývna zála), гімнасти́чний зал m (himnastýčnyj zal), спортза́л m (sportzál), спорти́вний зал m (sportývnyj zal)
• Volapük: turöp

physical education class

• Finnish: liikunta (fi)
• German: Sportunterricht (de) m
• Icelandic: íþróttir (is) f pl, leikfimi (is) f

• Irish: corpoideachas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gym m, kroppsøving m or f

  Nynorsk: gym m, kroppsøving f

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Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} гимна́зия (bg) f (gimnázija)

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

Verb

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

1. (intransitive, India) To go to the gym.
   • 2011, Rujuta Diwekar, Women and the weight loss tamasha:

     The only thing that can make you susceptible to this condition pre-marriage is crash dieting or mindless gymming and exercise.)

   • 2013, Neeta Iyer, Find_Love.com

     I have tried everything from yoga to dancing to gymming, but I can't be consistent with anything. Actually, I'm okay without working out.

   • 2021, Sandeep Dahiya, Lazy Ways To Truth (page 30)

     So just like you go gymming for your body, go gymming with thoughts in order to have a healthier mind.

Anagrams

• YGM

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Chinese

Alternative forms

• 尖

Etymology

From English gym.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zim¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zim¹
    • Yale: jīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːm⁵⁵/

Noun

gym

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) gym; gymnasium; fitness centre

   做gym [Cantonese]  ―  zou⁶ zim¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to work out

Compounds

• gym房

• 做gym

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Danish

Noun

gym (not declinable)

1. (slang) gymnasium

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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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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French

Pronunciation

• Audio (CAN)

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Noun

gym f (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymnastique.

Noun

gym m (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymnase.

Further reading

• “gym”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

1. clipping of gymnastikk.

Derived terms

• gymsal

References

• “gym” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

1. clipping of gymnastikk.

Derived terms

• gymsal

References

• “gym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• yim

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gym.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝim/, [ˈɟ͡ʝĩm]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝim/, [ˈɟ͡ʝĩm]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃim/, [ˈʃĩm]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒim/, [ˈʒĩm]

Noun

gym m (plural gyms)

1. gym, gymnasium

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gym, clipping of gymnasium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjʏm/

Noun

gym n

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

Declension

Declension of gym
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	gym	gymmet	gym	gymmen
Genitive	gyms	gymmets	gyms	gymmens

Derived terms

• gymma