gym

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪm/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪm
• Homophone: Jim

Noun

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?

     Audio (US):

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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.

Derived terms

• climbing gym
• gym bag
• gym bro
• gym bunny
• gym candy
• gymcel
• gym chalk
• gym clothes
• gym day
• gym-goer
• gym knickers
• gymlet
• gymmaxx
• gym muscles
• gym rat
• gym-rat
• gym scooter
• gym shoe
• gym shorts
• gymslip
• gym strip
• gym thot
• hit the gym
• jungle gym
• ninja gym
• rock gym

Related terms

• gymnasium
• gymnast
• gymnastics
• jim (humorous)

Translations

short form of gymnasium — see gymnasium

sporting facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise

• Afrikaans: gimnasium (af)
• Albanian: palestër (sq) f
• Arabic: صَالَة رِيَاضِيَّة f (ṣāla riyāḍiyya)

  Hijazi Arabic: نادي m (nādi)

• Armenian: մարզասրահ (hy) (marzasrah), ջիմ (hy) (ǰim)
• Azerbaijani: idman zalı
• Belarusian: спартза́ла f (spartzála), трэнажо́рная за́ла f (trenažórnaja zála), спарты́ўная за́ла f (spartýŭnaja zála)
• Bulgarian: гимнасти́чески сало́н m (gimnastíčeski salón)
• Burmese: အားကစားရုံ (a:ka.ca:rum)
• Catalan: gimnàs (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: posilovna (cs) f, posilka f (colloquial), tělocvična (cs) f
• Danish: fitnesscenter n, træningscenter n
• Dutch: sportschool (nl) f
• Esperanto: sportejo, trejnejo
• Estonian: jõusaal, võimla
• Faroese: venjingarhøli n
• Finnish: sali (fi) (colloquial), kuntosali (fi), punttisali (fi), punttis (fi) (colloquial)
• French: salle de gymnastique (fr) f, gym (fr) m, gymnase (fr) m, salle de sport (fr) f, salle de muscu f, salle (fr) f
• Galician: ximnasio (gl) m
• Georgian: სატრენაჟორო დარბაზი (saṭrenažoro darbazi), სპორტდარბაზი (sṗorṭdarbazi)
• German: Fitnessstudio (de) n, Gym n (slang), Turnhalle (de) f, Gymnastikraum (de) m
• Greek: γυμναστήριο (el) n (gymnastírio)
• Hebrew: חֲדַר כֹּשֶׁר m (ẖadár kósher), מְכוֹן כֹּשֶׁר m (machón kósher)
• Hindi: व्यायामशाला f (vyāyāmśālā), जिम (hi) (jim), जिमख़ाना m (jimxānā)
• Hungarian: edzőterem (hu)
• Icelandic: líkamsræktarstöð f
• Irish: ionad aclaíochta m, seomra aclaíochta m
• Italian: palestra (it) f
• Japanese: 体育館 (ja) (たいいくかん, taiikukan), ジム (ja) (jimu)
• Kazakh: спортзал (sportzal), спорт залы (sport zaly)
• Korean: 체육관(體育館) (ko) (cheyukgwan), 헬스클럽 (helseukeulleop, literally “health club”)
• Latvian: vingrošanas zāle f, trenažieru zāle f
• Lithuanian: sporto salė f
• Macedonian: вежба́лна f (vežbálna), терета́на f (teretána)
• Marathi: व्यायामशाळा f (vyāyāmśāḷā), जिम n (jim)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: treningssenter n

  Nynorsk: treningssenter n

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: وَرْزِشْگاه (varzešgâh), سالُنِ وَرْزِش (sâlon-e varzeš), زورْخانِه (zurxâne), وَرْزِشْخانِه (varzešxâne), باشْگاه (bâšgâh)

• Polish: siłownia (pl) f, siłka (pl) f, fitness club m, pakernia (pl) f, pakownia f
• Portuguese: ginásio (pt) m, academia (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: sală de gimnastică f
• Russian: гимнасти́ческий зал m (gimnastíčeskij zal), спортза́л (ru) m (sportzál), джим (ru) m (džim), тренажёрный зал m (trenažórnyj zal), (colloquial) кача́лка (ru) f (kačálka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гимнастичка сала f, терета̀на f, вежбаоница f

  Roman: gimnastička sala f, teretàna (sh) f, vežbaonica (sh) f

• Slovak: telocvičňa f, posilňovňa f, posilka f (colloquial)
• Slovene: fitnes m
• Spanish: gimnasio (es) m
• Swedish: gym (sv) n
• Tagalog: himnasyo, gymnasium
• Tajik: варзишгоҳ (tg) (varzišgoh), зали спорт (zal-i sport), зали варзиш (zal-i varziš)
• Thai: โรงยิม (roong-yim), ยิม (th) (yim)
• Turkish: spor salonu
• Ukrainian: тренаже́рний зал (uk) m (trenažérnyj zal), спорти́вна за́ла f (sportývna zála), гімнасти́чний зал m (himnastýčnyj zal), спортза́л m (sportzál), спорти́вний зал m (sportývnyj zal)
• Urdu: وَرْزِش گاہ m (varziś gāh), جِم (jim), وَرْزِش خانَہ m (varziś xāna), جِم خانَہ m (jim xāna)
• Uzbek: sportzal, gimnastika zali, sport zali
• Vietnamese: phòng thể dục, phòng tập thể dục, phòng thi đấu
• Volapük: turöp

physical education class

• Czech: tělesná výchova f, tělocvik m, tělovýchova f
• Finnish: liikunta (fi), liikka (fi) (colloquial)
• German: Sportunterricht (de) m
• Icelandic: íþróttir (is) f pl, leikfimi (is) f
• Irish: corpoideachas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gym m, kroppsøving m or f

  Nynorsk: gym m, kroppsøving f

• Polish: wychowanie fizyczne (pl) n, wuef (pl) m, gimnastyka (pl) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} гимна́зия (bg) f (gimnázija)
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} telocvičňa f

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• YGM

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 尖 (zim¹)

Etymology

From English gym.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zim¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zim¹
    • Yale: jīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːm⁵⁵/

Noun

gym

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) gym; gymnasium; fitness centre

   做gym [Cantonese]  ―  zou⁶ zim¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to work out

Derived terms

• gym房
• 做gym

Danish

Noun

gym (not declinable)

1. (slang) gymnasium

Dutch

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ɣɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

gym n (plural gymmen, diminutive gymmetje n)

1. Clipping of gymnasium

Noun

gym m (uncountable)

1. Clipping of gymnastiek

Etymology 2

From English gym.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

gym m (plural gyms, diminutive gymmetje n)

1. (informal) gym (fitness facility)

   Synonym: sportschool

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

gym f (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymnastique.

Noun

gym m (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymnase.

Further reading

• “gym”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

1. clipping of gymnastikk.

Derived terms

• gymsal

References

• “gym” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

1. clipping of gymnastikk.

Derived terms

• gymsal

References

• “gym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jyːm/

Verb

ġȳm

1. singular imperative of ġȳman

Spanish

Alternative forms

• yim

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gym.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝim/ [ˈɟ͡ʝĩm]

• 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]

• Rhymes: -im

Noun

gym m (plural gyms)

1. gym, gymnasium

Usage notes

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

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

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

Derived terms

• gymma