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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

salle de sport

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sal də spɔʁ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Gym/dʒɪm/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #2500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Il passe des heures à la salle de sport pour s'entraîner."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A club, building, or large room equipped with apparatus for physical exercise and athletic training.

    "She goes to the local gym three times a week to lift weights and do cardio."
  2. 2

    A school room or building used for physical education classes.

    "The children played dodgeball in the school gym on a rainy afternoon."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Shortened form of gymnasium, which originates from the ancient Greek word gymnasion, meaning a place for physical exercise. It derives from gymnos, meaning 'naked', because ancient Greeks exercised unclothed. The clipped form 'gym' emerged in English in the late 19th century.

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