GYM


Meaning of GYM in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

gym bunny

gym shoe

gym/union/party etc membership (= membership of a particular group )

How much do you pay for your gym membership?

jungle gym

the hotel restaurant/bar/gym

The hotel bar was empty.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

local

Expert advice from a local gym or sports centre can be very helpful when you are starting with weights.

When the boys were two I joined a local gym and started exercising five times a week.

I just go down to my local gym .

■ NOUN

jungle

Agile border jumpers sometimes climbed over the gates of unattended booths as if they were jungle gyms , officials said.

He turned to me and nodded gravely, and five minutes later he was hanging from the jungle gym beside another boy.

The place looked like a jungle gym .

school

Meetings began to be held all over the West Country in village halls and school gyms to debate the issues.

At YMCAs, restaurants and school gyms , Blue Cross representatives do show-and-tells for consumers.

shoe

The stolen gym shoe , hurled by Snecky, caught him on the side of the face.

He had bright white pants, black gym shoes .

We put on our gym shoes and trooped out to the gym in silence.

He wears gym shoes , or regular loafers, or of course those wooden clogs of his.

He pulled on an old army tracksuit and finally tied up his gym shoes .

Some one swiped one of little Alec Davidson's gym shoes and tossed it ahead to the front of the uneven column.

He was back: but, the gym shoe signalled, on his own terms.

teacher

As they passed her table, she heard the older woman counting one-two-three, one-two-three like a jolly and exasperated gym teacher .

Are they all gym teachers with short fingernails, sensible shoes and leathery skin?

She kept asking her gym teacher , imploring until her enthusiasm wedged her into the program.

■ VERB

go

I went to the gym to be stronger.

The only fun I had was going to the gym .

I wonder how anybody could ever go to gyms .

He stopped going to the gym .

I go to the gym in spite of myself, puffing and plodding along.

I remember going into the gym crying.

I go to a gym regularly and I use to swim for Liverpool so swimming still keeps me fit.

I slept for seven hours each night. 1 went to the gym every other day.

join

I have joined gyms in the past.

He joined a gym on La Cienega.

When the boys were two I joined a local gym and started exercising five times a week.

work

Enjoys windsurfing, working out at the gym and strutting his funky stuff on the dance floor.

Or perhaps you started to work out in the gym round the corner from the office.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a gym class

Ed goes to the gym to do weight training several times a week.

I've just signed up for an exercise class at the gym .

It was raining, so we had to play football in the gym this afternoon.

the boys' gym at the high school

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And Des works out in his home gym to keep up with her youthful vigour.

Are they all gym teachers with short fingernails, sensible shoes and leathery skin?

Enjoys windsurfing, working out at the gym and strutting his funky stuff on the dance floor.

He also joined the men in a gym session and with a physiotherapist.

He pulled what looked like a peach from what must have been a gym bag and bit through the skin.

I gave lip going to the gym , or really getting any exercise-except running for a plane.

The only fun I had was going to the gym .

We put on our gym shoes and trooped out to the gym in silence.

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