as in gymnasiums
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 gyms
Here’s how gyms and trainers are catering to a new group of exercisers.
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Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
The hotel lacks add-on services like gyms and spas, but there is a great Italian restaurant downstairs, that doubles as the perfect meeting place.
—Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
How gyms and trainers are catering to a new group of exercisers.
—Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
The casinos closed, as did bars, gyms and movie theaters.
—Erica E. Phillips, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2025
In front of loud crowds in small gyms, the madness is already spreading – and the soul of college basketball is wonderfully, mercifully, alive.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
State-of-the-art home gyms equipped with high-tech fitness equipment, yoga studios, and even meditation rooms are becoming staples.
—Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
Today, her superfood snack brand is stocked on shelves in climbing gyms and health stores nationwide.
—Ashia Aubourg, Outside Online, 8 Mar. 2025
The mix of South Street Seaport tourist traps, happy-hour bars, fast-casual chains, food halls, four-star restaurants, ultra high-end stores, luxury gyms, discount outlets, 19th-century hole-in-the-walls, and, as of this week, a French department store, is, in fact, very much New York.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 7 Mar. 2025
Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
The hotel lacks add-on services like gyms and spas, but there is a great Italian restaurant downstairs, that doubles as the perfect meeting place.
—Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
How gyms and trainers are catering to a new group of exercisers.
—Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
The casinos closed, as did bars, gyms and movie theaters.
—Erica E. Phillips, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2025
In front of loud crowds in small gyms, the madness is already spreading – and the soul of college basketball is wonderfully, mercifully, alive.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
State-of-the-art home gyms equipped with high-tech fitness equipment, yoga studios, and even meditation rooms are becoming staples.
—Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
Today, her superfood snack brand is stocked on shelves in climbing gyms and health stores nationwide.
—Ashia Aubourg, Outside Online, 8 Mar. 2025
The mix of South Street Seaport tourist traps, happy-hour bars, fast-casual chains, food halls, four-star restaurants, ultra high-end stores, luxury gyms, discount outlets, 19th-century hole-in-the-walls, and, as of this week, a French department store, is, in fact, very much New York.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Gyms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gyms. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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