Definitions for Gymnasium

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Gymnasium gym·na·si·um

Spelling: [jim-ney-zee-uh m]

IPA: /dʒɪmˈneɪ zi əm/

Gymnasium is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 307 anagrams from letters in Gymnasium (agimmnsuy).

Definitions for Gymnasium

noun

1. a building or room designed and equipped for indoor sports, exercise, or physical education.
2. a place where Greek youths met for exercise and discussion.
3. (often initial capital letter) (in continental Europe, especially Germany) a classical school preparatory to the universities.

Origin of Gymnasium

1590-1600; Latin: a public school for gymnastics Greek gymnásion gymnastic school (derivative of gymnázein to train in the nude

Examples for Gymnasium

The temple and walls and gymnasium were all of stone and looked as though they had been there forever.

She and the other teachers were seated on the raised platform at the end of the gymnasium.

They stormed the gymnasium by land one sunny spring day in 1904.

He once ran naked through the gymnasium during a basketball game.

He heard his wonderful brother talk for hours of the life in the gymnasium.

Two parallel fences tipped with barbed wire formed a narrow corridor into the gymnasium.

So they left the river and passed the gymnasium and the gate.

“This is not a gymnasium or spectator sport,” Ingram warned.

The dining hall, it seemed, had been put to more use than the gymnasium.

The soldier tried to get up to me by means of the trapeze and the gymnasium rope.