gym

English Online Dictionary. What means gym‎? What does gym mean?

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gym (plural gyms)

2. Clipping of gymnasium; especially, a school gymnasium.

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

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Pete, I want to work out. Where is the gym?

8. Physical education class (PE class).

Derived terms

Related terms

• gymnasium
• gymnast
• gymnastics
• jim (humorous)

Translations

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• YGM

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 尖 (zim¹)

Etymology

From English gym.

Pronunciation

Noun

gym

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

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

Derived terms

Danish

Noun

gym (not declinable)

1. (slang) gymnasium

Dutch

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

gym n (plural gymmen, diminutive gymmetje n)

1. Clipping of gymnasium

Noun

gym m (uncountable)

1. Clipping of gymnastiek

Etymology 2

From English gym.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

gym m (plural gyms, diminutive gymmetje n)

1. (informal) gym (fitness facility)

   Synonym: sportschool

French

Pronunciation

Noun

gym f (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymnastique.

Noun

gym m (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymnase.

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

1. clipping of gymnastikk.

Derived terms

• gymsal

References

• “gym” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

1. clipping of gymnastikk.

Derived terms

• gymsal

References

• “gym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jyːm/

Verb

ġȳm

1. singular imperative of ġȳman

Spanish

Alternative forms

• yim

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gym.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -im

Noun

gym m (plural gyms)

1. gym, gymnasium

Usage notes

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.

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

Derived terms

• gymma