gym

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gym (plural gyms)

Clipping of gymnasium.
(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)
physical education class

Synonyms

(sports facility for exercise): fitness center, health club, sports club

Derived terms

Related terms

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

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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)

(intransitive) To go to the gym.
On Wednesdays I hike; on Fridays I gym.

Anagrams

YGM

Danish

Noun

gym (not declinable)

(slang) gymnasium

Dutch

Pronunciation

Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

gym n (plural gymmen, diminutive gymmetje n)

short for gymnasium, a special type of secondary school

Noun

gym m (uncountable)

short for gymnastiek, physical education class

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

clipping of gymnastikk.

Derived terms

gymsal

References

“gym” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

clipping of gymnastikk.

Derived terms

gymsal

References

“gym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gym.

Noun

gym m (plural gyms)

gym, gymnasium

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gym, clipping of gymnasium.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈjʏm/

Noun

gym n

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

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