gymnasia
1 Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
Without interrupting his studies at Bowdoin, he supervised both the Yale and Bowdoin gymnasia for three years.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lot of people see the "Y" only as a chain of economical young men's hotels, a place of gymnasia, swimming pools and evening classes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Philosophers and sophists assembled to talk and to lecture in the gymnasia, which thus became places of general resort for the purpose of all less systematic intellectual pursuits, as well as for physical exercises.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
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