gymとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /d͡ʒɪm/
• 韻: -ɪm
• Homophone: Jim

名詞

gym (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymnasium; especially, a school gymnasium.

   It was pouring rain, so the kids played kickball in the gym instead of on the field.

   Gym is my favourite period in this school.

   I'm off to the gym for my pilates class.

2. (uncountable) Clipping of gymnastics, often as sense 4.
3. (especially weightlifting) A sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise (culturally differentiated from sense 1).

   Synonym: fitness center

   Near-synonyms: health club, sports club

   hit the gym

   He's been hitting the gym a lot. He has a membership at a commercial gym and also a bit of a home gym.

   • 2008, Lou Schuler, “Foreward”, in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii:

     Working out in commercial gyms, if anything, made my workouts worse instead of better.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Pete, I want to work out. Where is the gym?

4. Physical education class (PE class).

   gym teacher

   gym class

   She has gym on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.

   They played basketball in gym last week.

   The gym teacher at our school makes us stretch before and after each class.

派生語

関連する語

• gymnasium
• gymnast
• gymnastics
• jim (humorous)

動詞

gym (third-person singular simple present gyms, present participle gyming or gymming, simple past and past participle gymed or gymmed)

1. (intransitive, India, Australia, South Africa) To go to the gym.
   • 2011, Rujuta Diwekar, Women and the weight loss tamasha:

     The only thing that can make you susceptible to this condition pre-marriage is crash dieting or mindless gymming and exercise.)

   • 2013, Neeta Iyer, Find_Love.com:

     I have tried everything from yoga to dancing to gymming, but I can't be consistent with anything. Actually, I'm okay without working out.

   • 2021, Sandeep Dahiya, Lazy Ways To Truth, page 30:

     So just like you go gymming for your body, go gymming with thoughts in order to have a healthier mind.

アナグラム

• YGM

動詞

ġȳm

1. singular imperative of ġȳman