gym
noun · verb
Simple meaning
A sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
jimIPA pronunciation (US)
ˈdʒɪm
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
especially weightlifting
A sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise (culturally differentiated from sense 1).
Physical education class (PE class).
A large room or building for indoor sports.
uncountable
A sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness.
verb
intransitiveIndiaAustraliaSouth Africa
To go to the gym.
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: A sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise (culturally differentiated from sense 1).
Used this way, gym is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. This is a sporting use: familiar to anyone who follows the game, and puzzling to anyone who does not.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Sports
- News/reporting
- Everyday conversation
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use gym
- “She goes to the gym every morning before work to exercise.”
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