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gym

Translingual

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gym

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ngäbere.

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English

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Gymnasiums

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Noun

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gym (plural gyms)

  2. Clipping of gymnasium; especially, a school gymnasium.
    It was pouring rain, so the kids played kickball in the gym instead of on the field.
    I'm off to the gym for my pilates class.
  4. (uncountable) clipping of gymnastics. (often as sense 4)
  6. (especially weightlifting) A sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise (culturally differentiated from sense 1).
    Synonym: fitness center
    Near-synonyms: health club, sports club
    hit the gym
    He's been hitting the gym a lot. He has a membership at a commercial gym and also a bit of a home gym.
    • 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?
  8. Physical education class (PE class).
    gym teacher
    gym class
    She has gym on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
    They played basketball in gym last week.
    The gym teacher at our school makes us stretch before and after each class.

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Translations

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Verb

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

  1. (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.

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Chinese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From English gym.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gym

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) gym; gymnasium; fitness centre
    做gym [Cantonese]  ―  zou6 zim1 [Jyutping]  ―  to work out

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Danish

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Noun

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gym (not declinable)

  1. (slang) gymnasium

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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Clippings of various longer words; see those entries for more.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gym n (plural gymmen, diminutive gymmetje n)

  1. Clipping of gymnasium

Noun

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gym m (uncountable)

  1. Clipping of gymnastiek

Etymology 2

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From English gym.

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gym m (plural gyms, diminutive gymmetje n)

  1. (informal) gym (fitness facility)
    Synonym: sportschool

French

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gym f (plural gyms)

  1. Clipping of gymnastique.

Noun

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gym m (plural gyms)

  1. Clipping of gymnase.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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gym m (definite singular gymmen)

  1. clipping of gymnastikk.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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gym m (definite singular gymmen)

  1. clipping of gymnastikk.

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Old English

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Verb

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ġȳm

  1. singular imperative of ġȳman

Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English gym.

Pronunciation

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  • 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

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gym m (plural gyms)

  1. gym, gymnasium

Usage notes

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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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English gym, clipping of gymnasium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gym n

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

Declension

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

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