as in gymnasium
a building or room used for sports activities and exercising
he decided to get up early and go to the gym to lift weights
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Recent Examples of gym
Additional outdoor highlights include an infrared sauna and a full gym.
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Tori Latham, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026
More than a quarter of American men joined orders like the Knights of Pythias, and gyms grew in popularity.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
The organization, the structure, the facilities, the gym, the hyperbaric chambers.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
His high school gym was not the massive cathedrals built to serve the altars of Hoosier hysteria, but with 4,620 seats, the Greenfield Cougar Den is no slouch, either.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2026
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Tori Latham, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026
More than a quarter of American men joined orders like the Knights of Pythias, and gyms grew in popularity.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
The organization, the structure, the facilities, the gym, the hyperbaric chambers.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
His high school gym was not the massive cathedrals built to serve the altars of Hoosier hysteria, but with 4,620 seats, the Greenfield Cougar Den is no slouch, either.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gym
gymnasium
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From Fayetteville gymnasiums to professional courts in Rwanda, Canada and now China — and soon back to a Charlotte stage — Cole continues to remind North Carolinians that one of their own never stops reaching.—
Ryan Brennan
April 3,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Apr. 2026
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Video obtained by the Daily News shows a group of inmates in the MDC Brooklyn federal jail trying to climb a gymnasium wall for nearly 20 minutes in a clumsy attempt to pull a rope packed with contraband through a window.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 2026
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