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gymnasium

[jim-ney-zee-uhm] / dʒɪmˈneɪ zi əm /


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"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

He and others transported supplies into Iraq and provided security for private contractors, according to the article, which described a homecoming during which family members were reunited with servicemembers in a church gymnasium.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 2026

Nike, the shoe company, took over the campus recently re-making the gymnasium, cleaning all the banners hanging from the walls, putting up signs and using the auditorium to make it a shoe store.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 2026

It was bright orange with a fanged mouth big enough to swallow a gymnasium.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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

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

The state-maintained gymnasia are mostly of recent foundation, but some schools maintained by the various churches have been in existence for three, or sometimes four, centuries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 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

Instead, it is the academically oriented Ivy League, where players don’t receive athletic scholarships, teams play in sparsely filled gymnasiums and the games are streamed online instead of broadcast on network TV.

From Seattle Times Mar. 5, 2024

Caucusing begins at 7 p.m. local time in school gymnasiums, community centers and churches as brutal cold and snow in Iowa could affect turnout.

From New York Times Jan. 15, 2024

“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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