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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

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

By the time Dr. Martin pulled a bald eagle from a crate, inside that very quiet gymnasium, Axel was mesmerized.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

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

Since dissection was forbidden by their religion, they carefully watched athletes in the gymnasia.

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

But where these considerations are negligible, substantial uniformity is to be found in the equipment Gymnastic apparatus. of gymnasia not designed for specifically medical purposes.

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

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

"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

Still, a stream of refugees made their way to Yamagata, the prefecture west of Fukushima, where they would sleep on floors in crowded gymnasiums and municipal buildings.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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