changing room

noun

British.

1. a locker room, usually with showers, for athletes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of changing room¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Kawtar Boudad Dupont, 31, was travelling with her two daughters, aged two and eight, on Thursday when she went into a baby changing room in the South Terminal to feed one of her children.

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Eight nurses are challenging County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust's policy of allowing a female-only changing room to be used by Rose Henderson, a biological male who identifies as a woman.

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Rose, an operating department practitioner at Darlington Memorial Hospital who has been referred to by first name at the tribunal and uses female pronouns, also denied claims of giving "evil looks" at nurses who had signed a letter of objection to her use of and alleged conduct within the changing room.

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"No, I didn't see it as necessary," Rose replied, adding the use of the women's changing room was "never really brought up" by managers.

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Mr Fetto asked if Rose had continued using the changing room even after being aware of the "discontent", which Rose agreed with.

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