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gymnasium

[jim-ney-zee-uhm] / dʒɪmˈneɪ zi əm /


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Inside the Villaviciosa de Odon gymnasium, volunteers tried to keep children occupied with games and colouring activities, while others distributed meals after the evacuees had spent their first night sleeping on cots.

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

What I heard and witnessed that day in a gymnasium in the middle of coal country has remained with me all these years later.

From Salon Feb. 19, 2026

Original signage from when the Lasky-DeMille Barn was used as Paramount’s gymnasium.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 9, 2026

Moira took Aunt Elizabeth along the corridor of empty lockers, past the door to the gymnasium, and into the furnace room.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

There were Italian youth groups from Foggia and Viterbo and Gubbio and Como, a delegation from a Wiesbaden publishing house, some doctors from Canada, and alumni from two gymnasia in Berlin.

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

Philosophers and sophists assembled to talk and to lecture in the gymnasia, which thus became places of general resort for the purpose of all less systematic intellectual pursuits, as well as for physical exercises.

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

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

More than 640,000 have been forced from their homes, including 65,000 who are sheltering in schools and gymnasiums.

From Seattle Times May 23, 2024

"I remember that safety inspections were conducted on various gymnasiums after the Qiqihar No. 34 Middle School gymnasium collapsed in July," said a netizen on China's Weibo social media platform.

From Reuters Nov. 7, 2023

“Evacuation centers are being set up throughout Southern California in school gymnasiums, churches, and malls—but there seems to be a staggering number of people who are choosing not to cooperate with these government mandates.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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