gym
/d͡ʒɪm/
gym noun: a sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise (culturally differentiated from sense 1). Also the clipping of gymnasium.
Noun
gym (plural gyms)
- A sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise (culturally differentiated from sense 1).
- Near-synonyms: health club, sports club
- hit the gym
- Synonyms:
- fitness center, health club, sports club
- Physical education class (PE class).
- gym teacher
- gym class
Verb
gym (third-person singular simple present gyms, present participle gyming or gymming, simple past and past participle gymed or gymmed)
- To go to the gym.
- The only thing that can make you susceptible to this condition pre-marriage is crash dieting or mindless gymming and exercise.)2011, Rujuta Diwekar, Women and the weight loss tamasha
- 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.2013, Neeta Iyer, Find_Love.com
Also used as
gym is also the clipping of gymnasium.
gym is also the clipping of gymnastics.
gym meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
gym in Hindi
- sporting facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise
- व्यायामशाला vyāyāmśālā, जिम jim, जिमख़ाना jimxānā
gym in Tamil
- உடற்பயிற்சிக் கூடம், உடற்பயிற்சி கூடம்
gym in Marathi
- sporting facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise
- व्यायामशाळा vyāyāmśāḷā, जिम jim
gym in Urdu
- sporting facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise
- وَرْزِش گاہ varziś gāh, جِم jim, وَرْزِش خانَہ varziś xāna, جِم خانَہ jim xāna
More languagesFewer languages
- gym in Telugu
- వ్యాయామశాల
- gym in Kannada
- ವ್ಯಾಯಾಮಶಾಲೆ
- gym in Tagalog
- himnasyo, gymnasium
- gym in Arabic
- صَالَة رِيَاضِيَّة ṣāla riyāḍiyya
- gym in Thai
- โรงยิม roong-yim, ยิม yim
- gym in Vietnamese
- phòng thể dục, phòng tập thể dục, phòng thi đấu
- gym in Myanmar
- အားကစားရုံ a:ka.ca:rum
Examples of gym in a sentence
- He's been hitting the gym a lot. He has a membership at a commercial gym and also a bit of a home gym.
- 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.
- Working out in commercial gyms, if anything, made my workouts worse instead of better.2008, Lou Schuler, “Foreward”, in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii:
- So just like you go gymming for your body, go gymming with thoughts in order to have a healthier mind.2021, Sandeep Dahiya, Lazy Ways To Truth, page 30:
Synonyms of gym
Forms of gym
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gyms |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | gyms |
| present participle | gyming |
| present participle | gymming |
| past participle | gymed |
| past | gymed |
| past participle | gymmed |
| past | gymmed |
Words formed from gym
- aquagym
- climbing gym
- gym bag
- gym ball
- gym bro
- gym bunny
- gym candy
- gymcel
- gym chalk
- gym clothes
- gym day
- gymfluencer
- gymgoer
- gym-goer
- gym itch
- gym knickers
- gymless
- gymlet
- gymlike
- gymmaxx
- gym muscles
- gym queen
- gym rat
- gym-rat
- gym scooter
- gym shoe
- gym shorts
- gymslip
- gym strip
- gym thot
- gymtimidation
- GymTok
- gymwear
- hit the gym
- jungle gym
- multigym
- ninja gym
- rock gym
Phrases with gym
Words that rhyme with gym
Questions about gym
- What does gym mean?
- Gym means a sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise (culturally differentiated from sense 1).
- What is gym in Hindi?
- Gym in Hindi is व्यायामशाला (vyāyāmśālā), जिम (jim), जिमख़ाना (jimxānā). See Gym meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use gym in a sentence?
- He's been hitting the gym a lot. He has a membership at a commercial gym and also a bit of a home gym.
- What part of speech is gym?
- Gym can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce gym?
- Gym is pronounced /d͡ʒɪm/.
- What is the plural of gym?
- The plural of gym is gyms.
Words near gym in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gym (page history and authors); gym (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gym (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gym (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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