gymgym /dʒɪm/ ●●● S3 noun 
I try and work out at the local gym once a week. I go to the gym as often as I can.2[uncountable] exercises that people do indoors for physical development and as a sport, especially at school: We’ve got gym this afternoon. Where’s my gym kit?
WORD ORIGINgym
Origin:
1800-1900 gymnasiumEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a gym class
- Ed goes to the gym to do weight training several times a week.
- I've just signed up for an exercise class at the gym.
- It was raining, so we had to play football in the gym this afternoon.
- the boys' gym at the high school
- And Des works out in his home gym to keep up with her youthful vigour.
- Are they all gym teachers with short fingernails, sensible shoes and leathery skin?
- Enjoys windsurfing, working out at the gym and strutting his funky stuff on the dance floor.
- He also joined the men in a gym session and with a physiotherapist.
- He pulled what looked like a peach from what must have been a gym bag and bit through the skin.
- I gave lip going to the gym, or really getting any exercise-except running for a plane.
- The only fun I had was going to the gym.
- We put on our gym shoes and trooped out to the gym in silence.
THESAURUSplaces where people do sport
(also pitch British English) a large area of ground, usually covered with grass, where team sports are played: · A few kids were playing on the football field.· a hockey field
a large sports field with seats all around it for people to watch team sports or track and field competitions: · The atmosphere in the Olympic Stadium was amazing.· a football stadium
British English a sports field and the seats and buildings around it, belonging to a particular football, rugby, or cricket team: · I met my friends inside the ground.
American English a stadium where baseball is played: · Busch Stadium is one of the newest ballparks in Major League.
an area with lines painted on the ground, for tennis, badminton, basketball, or volleyball: · The hotel has four tennis courts and a volleyball court.
the area in a baseball field that is within the shape formed by the four bases. The diamond can also be the whole field: · The pitcher stands in the middle of the diamond.· There’s a playground, a picnic area, and a baseball diamond.
a circular path with lines on it, for running on: · In the relay, each runner runs once around the track.
a room with machines which you can use to do exercises: · He spends an hour in the gym every day.
a place where you can swim: · He jumped into the deep end of the pool.· I’ll meet you outside the swimming pool.
British English, sports center American English a building where you can play many types of indoor sports: · Why not do exercise classes at your local sports centre?
a small sports centre, where you pay to be a member: · How much does it cost to join a health club?
Longman Language Activatora place where you do a sport a large area of ground, usually covered in grass, where team sports are played: · The crowd cheered as the players ran onto the field.baseball/football/sports etc field: · The football field was too muddy to play on, so the game was cancelled· Some open spaces north of the city will be made into sports fields for leisure activities.playing field: · Several school playing fields have been sold off to raise money.
British a sports field: · Some of the fans rushed onto the pitch at the end of the matchcricket/football etc pitch: · The village has attractive playing fields, with a football and cricket pitch.
an area with lines painted on the ground, where two people or teams play a game such as tennis or basketball: · The courts are floodlit at night so that you can play all the year round.tennis/basketball/squash etc court: · The new leisure complex has a sauna, jacuzzi, swimming pool and tennis courts.
British a building where you can do various different sports: · The council is planning to build a multi-million pound leisure centre outside the town.
a building where there are machines that you can use to do exercises that make you fitter and stronger, or where you can do exercise classes etc. A gym is also a large room that is built especially for sports to be played in, for example in a school or university: · I've just signed up for an exercise class at the gym.· Ed goes to the gym to do weight training several times a week.· It was raining, so we had to play football in the gym this afternoon.
a place where you can swim, consisting of a large hole in the ground that has been built and filled with water, either outdoors or inside a building: · The house, with its own tennis court and swimming-pool, is for sale at £700.000.· There's an open air pool at Woodstock that's great when it's really hot.· What we want is a hotel with a big heated pool, in case it rains.
a large sports field with seats all around it, where people go to watch sports: · The stadium has a capacity of at least 10,000.football/baseball/sports stadium: · Denver has a new airport, a new baseball stadium, and a reputation as a good place to live.
physical activities in which people compete against each other British /sports American physical activities that need effort and skill and that are usually competitive: · She's interested in cinema, music and sport.· Sport has always been very important in this part of the country.do sport British: · We don't do much sport at my school.play sports especially American: · Today's kids need to spend less time watching television, and more time playing sports.
British a period of time in school when you do organized sports activities such as football, tennis etc, usually outdoors: · The boys have games on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons.· Hurry up or you'll be late for your games lesson.
also P.E., also Phys. Ed. American a period of time in school when you do organized physical activities: · Sometimes in Phys. Ed. we're allowed to go on the trampolines.· How many times a week do you have P.E.?
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I go to the gym as often as I can. Where’s my gym kit?COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1[countable] a special building or room that has equipment for doing physical exercise SYN gymnasiumat/in a gym I go to the gym as often as I can. Where’s my gym kit?· The hotel bar was empty.
(=membership of a particular group)· How much do you pay for your gym membership?
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Expert advice from a local gym or sports centre can be very helpful when you are starting with weights.· When the boys were two I joined a local gym and started exercising five times a week.· I just go down to my local gym.
NOUN· Agile border jumpers sometimes climbed over the gates of unattended booths as if they were jungle gyms, officials said.· He turned to me and nodded gravely, and five minutes later he was hanging from the jungle gym beside another boy.· The place looked like a jungle gym.
· Meetings began to be held all over the West Country in village halls and school gyms to debate the issues.· At YMCAs, restaurants and school gyms, Blue Cross representatives do show-and-tells for consumers.
· The stolen gym shoe, hurled by Snecky, caught him on the side of the face.· He had bright white pants, black gym shoes.· We put on our gym shoes and trooped out to the gym in silence.· He wears gym shoes, or regular loafers, or of course those wooden clogs of his.· He pulled on an old army tracksuit and finally tied up his gym shoes.· Some one swiped one of little Alec Davidson's gym shoes and tossed it ahead to the front of the uneven column.· He was back: but, the gym shoe signalled, on his own terms.
· As they passed her table, she heard the older woman counting one-two-three, one-two-three like a jolly and exasperated gym teacher.· Are they all gym teachers with short fingernails, sensible shoes and leathery skin?· She kept asking her gym teacher, imploring until her enthusiasm wedged her into the program.
VERB· I went to the gym to be stronger.· The only fun I had was going to the gym.· I wonder how anybody could ever go to gyms.· He stopped going to the gym.· I go to the gym in spite of myself, puffing and plodding along.· I remember going into the gym crying.· I go to a gym regularly and I use to swim for Liverpool so swimming still keeps me fit.· I slept for seven hours each night. 1 went to the gym every other day.
· I have joined gyms in the past.· He joined a gym on La Cienega.· When the boys were two I joined a local gym and started exercising five times a week.
· Enjoys windsurfing, working out at the gym and strutting his funky stuff on the dance floor.· Or perhaps you started to work out in the gym round the corner from the office.
I try and work out at the local gym once a week. I go to the gym as often as I can.2[uncountable] exercises that people do indoors for physical development and as a sport, especially at school: We’ve got gym this afternoon. Where’s my gym kit?- watchfulness
- watching brief
- watchkeeper
- watch list
- watchmaker
- watchman
- watchstrap
- watchtower
- Watchtower, The
- watchword
- water
- Water Babies, The
- waterbed
- water bird
- water biscuit
- waterboarding
- waterborne
- water bottle
- water boy
- water buffalo
- water bug
- water butt
- water cannon
- water chestnut
- water closet