gym

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gym (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymnasium.
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)

     (file)

4. 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

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

  Hijazi Arabic: نادي‎ m (nādi)

• Armenian: մարզասրահ (hy) (marzasrah), ջիմ (hy) (ǰim)
• Azerbaijani: idman zalı, idman zalı
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: posilovna (cs) f
• Dutch: sportschool (nl) m
• Finnish: sali (fi) (colloquial), kuntosali (fi), punttisali
• French: salle de gymnastique (fr) f, gym (fr) m, gymnase (fr) m, salle de sport f, salle de muscu f, salle (fr) f
• Galician: ximnasio (gl) m
• Georgian: სატრენაჟორო დარბაზი (saṭrenažoro darbazi)
• German: Gymnastikraum m, Fitnessstudio (de) n, Turnhalle (de) f
• Greek: γυμναστήριο (el) n (gymnastírio)

• Hungarian: edzőterem (hu)
• 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: вежба́лна f (vežbálna), терета́на f (teretána)
• Polish: siłownia (pl) f
• Portuguese: academia (pt) f
• Russian: тренажёрный зал m (trenažórnyj zal), гимнасти́ческий зал m (gimnastíčeskij zal), спортза́л (ru) m (sportzál), джим (ru) m (džim)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: теретана f, вежбаоница f

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

• Spanish: gimnasio (es) m
• Swedish: gym (sv) n
• Volapük: turöp

physical education class

• Finnish: liikunta (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gym m, kroppsøving m or f

  Nynorsk: gym m, kroppsøving f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} гимназия (bg) 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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Danish

Noun

gym (not declinable)

1. (slang) gymnasium

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• 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 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

Etymology

Borrowed from English gym.

Noun

gym m (plural gyms)

1. gym, gymnasium

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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