gym
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gym (plural gyms)
- Clipping of gymnasium.
- I'm off to the gym for my pilates class.
- (uncountable) clipping of gymnastics. (often as sense 4)
- (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)
- Pete, I want to work out. Where is the gym?
- physical education class
- The gym teacher at our school makes us stretch before and after each class.
Synonyms edit
- (sports facility for exercise): fitness center, health club, sports club
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- gymnasium
- gymnast
- gymnastics
- jim (humorous)
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Verb edit
gym (third-person singular simple present gyms, present participle gyming or gymming, simple past and past participle gymed or gymmed)
- (intransitive, India, Australia, South Africa) 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 edit
Chinese edit
Alternative forms edit
- 尖 (zim1)
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gym
Derived terms edit
Danish edit
Noun edit
gym (not declinable)
Dutch edit
Etymology 1 edit
Clippings of various longer words; see those entries for more.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gym n (plural gymmen, diminutive gymmetje n)
Noun edit
gym m (uncountable)
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gym m (plural gyms, diminutive gymmetje n)
- (informal) gym (fitness facility)
- Synonym: sportschool
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (CAN) (file)
Noun edit
gym f (plural gyms)
- Clipping of gymnastique.
Noun edit
gym m (plural gyms)
- Clipping of gymnase.
Further reading edit
- “gym”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
gym m (definite singular gymmen)
- clipping of gymnastikk.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “gym” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
gym m (definite singular gymmen)
- clipping of gymnastikk.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “gym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English gym.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -im
Noun edit
gym m (plural gyms)
Usage notes edit
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.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English gym, clipping of gymnasium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gym n
- gym; a sporting facility specialized on exercising strength, lifting weights.
Declension edit
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Nominative | gym | gymmet | gym | gymmen |
Genitive | gyms | gymmets | gyms | gymmens |