gymnasium

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In old times, the gymnasium was the school,--the public games and festivals its "annual exhibitions The word gymnasium has reference in its derivation to the nude or semi-nude condition of those who exercised there.

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  1. noun Sports A room or building equipped for indoor sports.
  2. noun Sports An academic high school in some central European countries, especially Germany, that prepares students for the university.

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  1. Latin, school, from Greek gumnasion, from gumnazein, to exercise naked, from gumnos, naked; see nogw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French gymnase = Spanish gimnasio = Portuguese gymnasio = Italian ginnasio, from Latin gymnasium, from Greek γυμνάσιον, a public place where athletic exercises were practised, from γυμνάζειν, train naked, train in athletic exercises, from γυμνός, naked, stripped, lightly clad.
 

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/dʒɪmˈneɪziəm/
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