# gym
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒɪm/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪm
* Homophone: Jim

### Noun

gym (plural gyms)
* Clipping of gymnasium; especially, a school gymnasium.
    It was pouring rain, so the kids played kickball in the gym instead of on the field.
    I'm off to the gym for my pilates class.
* (uncountable) clipping of gymnastics. (often as sense 4)
* (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
    hit the gym
    He's been hitting the gym a lot. He has a membership at a commercial gym and also a bit of a home gym.
** 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?
       Audio (US):(file)
* Physical education class (PE class).
    gym teacher
    gym class
    She has gym on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
    They played basketball in gym last week.
    The gym teacher at our school makes us stretch before and after each class.

#### Derived terms

* climbing gym
* gym bag
* gym bro
* gym bunny
* gym candy
* gymcel
* gym chalk
* gym clothes
* gym day
* gym-goer
* gym knickers
* gymlet
* gymmaxx
* gym muscles
* gym rat
* gym-rat
* gym scooter
* gym shoe
* gym shorts
* gymslip
* gym strip
* gym thot
* hit the gym
* jungle gym
* ninja gym
* rock gym

#### Related terms

* gymnasium
* gymnast
* gymnastics
* jim (humorous)

#### Translations

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### Verb

gym (third-person singular simple present gyms, present participle gyming or gymming, simple past and past participle gymed or gymmed)
* (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.

### Anagrams

* YGM

## Chinese
### Alternative forms

* 尖 (zim$^1$)

### Etymology

From English gym.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): zim$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zim$^1$
*** Yale: jīm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzim$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: jim$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siːm⁵⁵/

### Noun

gym
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) gym; gymnasium; fitness centre
    做gym [Cantonese] ― zou$^6$ zim$^1$ [Jyutping] ― to work out

#### Derived terms

* gym房
* 做gym

## Danish
### Noun

gym (not declinable)
* (slang) gymnasium

## Dutch
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /ɣɪm/
* Rhymes: -ɪm

#### Noun

gym n (plural gymmen, diminutive gymmetje n)
* Clipping of gymnasium

#### Noun

gym m (uncountable)
* Clipping of gymnastiek

### Etymology 2

From English gym.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʒɪm/
* Rhymes: -ɪm

#### Noun

gym m (plural gyms, diminutive gymmetje n)
* (informal) gym (fitness facility)
    Synonym: sportschool

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Noun

gym f (plural gyms)
* Clipping of gymnastique.

### Noun

gym m (plural gyms)
* 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)
* clipping of gymnastikk.

#### Derived terms

* gymsal

### References

* “gym” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)
* clipping of gymnastikk.

#### Derived terms

* gymsal

### References

* “gym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jyːm/

### Verb

ġȳm
* singular imperative of ġȳman

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* yim

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gym.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʝim/ [ˈɟ͡ʝĩm]
* IPA: (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝim/ [ˈɟ͡ʝĩm]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃim/ [ˈʃĩm]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒim/ [ˈʒĩm]
* Rhymes: -im

### Noun

gym m (plural gyms)
* 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: /ˈjʏm/

### Noun

gym n
* gym; a sporting facility specialized on exercising strength, lifting weights.

#### Derived terms

* gymma