gym

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gym (plural gyms)

  1. Clipping of gymnasium.
  2. (uncountable) clipping of gymnastics. (often as sense 4)
  3. (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?
      (file)
  4. physical education class

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Verb

gym (third-person singular simple present gyms, present participle gyming, simple past and past participle gymed)

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

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Danish

Noun

gym (not declinable)

  1. (slang) gymnasium

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

gym n (plural gymmen, diminutive gymmetje n)

  1. short for gymnasium, a special type of secondary school

Noun

gym m (uncountable)

  1. short for gymnastiek, physical education class

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

  1. clipping of gymnastikk.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

  1. clipping of gymnastikk.

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gym.

Noun

gym m (plural gyms)

  1. gym, gymnasium

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 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative gym gymmet gym gymmen
Genitive gyms gymmets gyms gymmens

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