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gymnasium

[jim-nay-zee-uhm] / dʒɪmˈneɪ zi əm /


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“It’s 108 out there. It’s good for us,” a Bishop Gorman coach told players 3 1/2 hours before kickoff during their pregame meal in a room on the second floor of their gymnasium complex.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

"There is a risk that the fire could reach homes, but we are deploying all available resources to protect them," he said, with a nearby gymnasium opened to accommodate those evacuating their homes.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

"I felt very ill because I have asthma. I started coughing and I threw up," she told AFP at a gymnasium in the northern Madrid suburb of Alcobendas.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

During the 1950s and 1960s, the team reconstructed a monumental bath gymnasium complex and the largest synagogue in the ancient world.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026

They marched into the gymnasium to meet their competition—Quiz Bowl teams from the five other middle schools in the district.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

They might serve as rigorous gymnasia for the political imagination.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2014

As recently as 2006, the state's prisons held twice as many prisoners as they were meant to house, and inmate bunks were stacked in gymnasia and day rooms along with regular cells.

From Reuters ● Oct. 15, 2013

A lot of people see the "Y" only as a chain of economical young men's hotels, a place of gymnasia, swimming pools and evening classes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without interrupting his studies at Bowdoin, he supervised both the Yale and Bowdoin gymnasia for three years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gymnastics had already for several years been an essential part of the training of army recruits with exceedingly beneficial results, and gymnasia had been established at Aldershot and other military centres.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various

This is why the sight of empty seats in high school gymnasiums and muted cable coverage that tell a less flattering story cuts so deeply.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026

Emergency shelters were set up in schools and gymnasiums in southwestern France for tourists and residents left wondering what they would return to.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

What calls to mind phys ed and school gymnasiums more palpably than dodgeball?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024

It includes increased access to water, ice, fans, portable cooling units and shelters, such as gymnasiums or chapels.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

Auditoriums or gymnasiums all lighted up, the band’s chartered bus outside, the dressed-up, excited, local dancers pouring in.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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