At 2011-04-09 20:41, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
PS--To me, fitness centre would eliminate any possible confusion with other usages of gym or gymnasium, but if gym has already been in wide usage, it'll do.
+1 Not that I spend any time there myself :-|, but people that do almost universally call them gym(s).
PPS--In the US, "gymnasium" is definitely not limited to places where people do gymnastics, as mike said it's a large indoor room for a variety of sports--like basketball and volleyball--and also sometimes events like assemblies or dances.
... at a school. The long form of the word would normally cause one to think about such a multi-purpose building at a high school or elementary school. Colleges and universities generally have separate facilities for some of those things and name them more specifically. I never hear someone refer to one of the commercial fitness centers as a gymnasium.
>I noticed a note on the bottom of the page that a bot changed ~1500 gyms to sport=gymnastics!?
If so, that was almost certainly wrong if people have been using the term as per US common usage.
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