gym

Plural: gyms

Noun

• A room or building equipped for indoor sports and exercise.
• athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training
• Clipping of gymnasium; especially, a school gymnasium.
• Clipping of gymnastics, often as sense 4.
• A sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise (culturally differentiated from sense 1).
• Physical education class (PE class).

Verb

• To go to the gym.

Examples

• After a mentally exhausting game of Scrabble, he felt like he’d just left the gym.
• gym class
• gym teacher
• He's been hitting the gym a lot. He has a membership at a commercial gym and also a bit of a home gym.
• hit the gym
• I'm off to the gym for my pilates class.
• It was pouring rain, so the kids played kickball in the gym instead of on the field.
• She has gym on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
• The gym teacher at our school makes us stretch before and after each class.
• They played basketball in gym last week.

Synonyms

gymnasium, fitness center

Related Words

gymnasium, gymnast, gymnastics, jim