noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gym bunny
gym shoe
gym/union/party etc membership (= membership of a particular group )
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How much do you pay for your gym membership?
jungle gym
the hotel restaurant/bar/gym
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The hotel bar was empty.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
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Expert advice from a local gym or sports centre can be very helpful when you are starting with weights.
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When the boys were two I joined a local gym and started exercising five times a week.
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I just go down to my local gym .
■ NOUN
jungle
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Agile border jumpers sometimes climbed over the gates of unattended booths as if they were jungle gyms , officials said.
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He turned to me and nodded gravely, and five minutes later he was hanging from the jungle gym beside another boy.
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The place looked like a jungle gym .
school
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Meetings began to be held all over the West Country in village halls and school gyms to debate the issues.
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At YMCAs, restaurants and school gyms , Blue Cross representatives do show-and-tells for consumers.
shoe
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The stolen gym shoe , hurled by Snecky, caught him on the side of the face.
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He had bright white pants, black gym shoes .
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We put on our gym shoes and trooped out to the gym in silence.
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He wears gym shoes , or regular loafers, or of course those wooden clogs of his.
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He pulled on an old army tracksuit and finally tied up his gym shoes .
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Some one swiped one of little Alec Davidson's gym shoes and tossed it ahead to the front of the uneven column.
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He was back: but, the gym shoe signalled, on his own terms.
teacher
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As they passed her table, she heard the older woman counting one-two-three, one-two-three like a jolly and exasperated gym teacher .
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Are they all gym teachers with short fingernails, sensible shoes and leathery skin?
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She kept asking her gym teacher , imploring until her enthusiasm wedged her into the program.
■ VERB
go
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I went to the gym to be stronger.
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The only fun I had was going to the gym .
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I wonder how anybody could ever go to gyms .
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He stopped going to the gym .
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I go to the gym in spite of myself, puffing and plodding along.
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I remember going into the gym crying.
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I go to a gym regularly and I use to swim for Liverpool so swimming still keeps me fit.
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I slept for seven hours each night. 1 went to the gym every other day.
join
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I have joined gyms in the past.
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He joined a gym on La Cienega.
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When the boys were two I joined a local gym and started exercising five times a week.
work
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Enjoys windsurfing, working out at the gym and strutting his funky stuff on the dance floor.
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Or perhaps you started to work out in the gym round the corner from the office.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a gym class
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Ed goes to the gym to do weight training several times a week.
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I've just signed up for an exercise class at the gym .
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It was raining, so we had to play football in the gym this afternoon.
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the boys' gym at the high school
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And Des works out in his home gym to keep up with her youthful vigour.
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Are they all gym teachers with short fingernails, sensible shoes and leathery skin?
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Enjoys windsurfing, working out at the gym and strutting his funky stuff on the dance floor.
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He also joined the men in a gym session and with a physiotherapist.
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He pulled what looked like a peach from what must have been a gym bag and bit through the skin.
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I gave lip going to the gym , or really getting any exercise-except running for a plane.
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The only fun I had was going to the gym .
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We put on our gym shoes and trooped out to the gym in silence.