gymnoun
uk/dʒɪm/us/dʒɪm/A2 [ U ] physical exercises and activities performed inside, often using equipment, especially when done as a subject at school:
gym clothes
gym shoes
Class 3 do gym on a Wednesday afternoon.
The third graders have gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
A2 [ C ] also gymnasium a large room with equipment for exercising the body and increasing strength:
We played basketball in the gym.
[ C ] a club where you can go to exercise and keep fit:
I go to the gym twice a week.
More examples
- A work-out in the gym will exercise all the major muscle groups.
- He works in a sports centre instructing people in the use of the gym equipment.
- I felt so unfit after Christmas that I decided to join a gym.
- A figure like that is usually the product of many hours spent in the gym.
- I like to sweat it out in the gym for a couple of hours every day.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Gymnastics
- asymmetric bars
- beam
- cartwheel
- free running
- gymnast
- gymnastics
- handstand
- headstand
- horse
- pommel horse
- ring
- somersault
- stand
- stand on your hands/head idiom
- the parallel bars
- trampoline
- trapeze
- uneven bars
- vault
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