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gym-rat

gym-rat is the alternative form of gym rat.

Meaning of gym rat

Noun

gym rat (plural gym rats)

  1. (colloquial) A person who spends an unusually large amount of time at a gym.
    • Three decades ago, the trappings of sports equipment in those rooms took a magnetic hold on "gym rat" McGuire.1977, Newsweek, volume 89
    Synonyms:
    gym bunny

Forms of gym-rat

pluralgym-rats

Questions about gym-rat

What is gym-rat the alternative form of?
Gym-rat is the alternative form of gym rat.

Words near gym-rat in the dictionary

  1. gym thot
  2. gym thots
  3. gym-goer
  4. gym-goers
  5. gym-queen
  6. gym-rat
  7. gym-rats
  8. gymaholic
  9. gymbal
  10. gymbals
  11. Gymbowen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gym-rat (page history and authors); gym rat (page history and authors). 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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