gym

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪm/

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• Rhymes: -ɪm
• Homophone: Jim

gym (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymnasium.

   I'm off to the gym for my pilates class.

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?

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4. physical education class

   The gym teacher at our school makes us stretch before and after each class.

• (sports facility for exercise): fitness center, health club, sports club

• 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