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noun

Gymnasium n. (pl. E. gymnasiums, L. gymnasia)

A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.

A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; used esp. of German schools of this kind. "More like ordinary schools of gymnasia than universities."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gymnasium" Quotes from Famous Books

... the noonday meal was finished and the boys had scattered to recitations or the dormitories Van sauntered idly out past the tennis-courts; across the field skirting the golf course and then with one sudden plunge was behind the gymnasium and running like a deer for the thicket that separated Colversham from the Sawyer estate. He knew the lay of the land perfectly, for this short cut was a favorite thoroughfare of the boys, in spite of the ...

— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett

... In the town where I attended boarding school there is a large gymnasium, under the superintendence of a man who traveled for years with a circus. He used to give lessons to the boys, but most contented themselves with a few common exercises. I suppose I should also, but there was an English boy in the school, ...

— The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus • Horatio Alger Jr.

... really doubtful if dumb-bells, a gymnasium, and a pickerel-back racing-wherry would meet precisely the case of Mr. Herbert, however desirable for city saints who have plenty of ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 27, January, 1860 • Various

... band stand, and setting out trees and shrubs. An ample area at one end of the grounds was reserved for a ball field; and adjoining it parallel bars, traveling rings, and the apparatus necessary to an out-of-door gymnasium was put ...

— The Story of Leather • Sara Ware Bassett

... delighted, went out to meet and receive the relics with splendid processions and with sacrifices, as if it were Theseus himself returning alive to the city. He lies interred in the middle of the city, near the present gymnasium. His tomb is a sanctuary and refuge for slaves, and all those of mean condition that fly from the persecution of men in power, in memory that Theseus while he lived was an assister and protector of the distressed, and never ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

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