gym

gym

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ngäbere terms

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪm/

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• Rhymes: -ɪm
• Homophone: Jim

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.

• gymnasium
• gymnast
• gymnastics
• jim (humorous)

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.

• YGM

• 尖 (zim¹)

From English gym.

gym

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

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

gym (not declinable)

1. (slang) gymnasium

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

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• IPA^(key): /ɣɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

gym n (plural gymmen, diminutive gymmetje n)

1. Clipping of gymnasium

gym m (uncountable)

1. Clipping of gymnastiek

From English gym.

• IPA^(key): /dʒɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

gym m (plural gyms, diminutive gymmetje n)

1. (informal) gym (fitness facility)

   Synonym: sportschool

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gym f (plural gyms)

1. clipping of gymnastique

gym m (plural gyms)

1. clipping of gymnase

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

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

1. clipping of gymnastikk

• gymsal

• “gym” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

1. clipping of gymnastikk

• gymsal

• “gym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /jyːm/

ġȳm

1. singular imperative of ġȳman

• yim

Unadapted borrowing from English gym.

• Rhymes: -im

gym m (plural gyms)

1. gym, gymnasium

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.

Borrowed from English gym, clipping of gymnasium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjʏm/

gym n

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

• gymma