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Gymnasium, Sardis. The gymnasium (Ancient Greek: γυμνάσιον, romanized: gymnásion) in Ancient Greece functioned as a training facility for competitors in public games. It was also a place for socializing and engaging in intellectual pursuits. The name comes from the Ancient Greek term gymnós, meaning "naked" or "nude". Only adult male ...
Inside a gymnasium in Amsterdam. A gym, short for gymnasium (pl.: gymnasiums or gymnasia), is an indoor venue for exercise and sports. The word is derived from the ancient Greek term "gymnasion". [1] They are commonly found in athletic and fitness centres, and as activity and learning spaces in educational institutions.
Gymnasium may refer to: Gymnasium (ancient Greece), educational and sporting institution; Gymnasium (school), type of secondary school that prepares students for higher education Gymnasium (Denmark) Gymnasium (Germany) Gym, an indoor place for physical exercise and sports; Outdoor gym, an outdoor place for physical exercise and sports
Gymnasium Theodorianum in Paderborn, Germany, one of the oldest schools in the world Stiftsgymnasium Melk, the oldest continuously operating school in Austria. Gymnasium (and variations of the word; pl. gymnasia [1]) is a term in various European languages for a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university.
Xystus (Ancient Greek: ξυστός) was originally the ancient Greek architectural term for the covered portico of the gymnasium, in which the exercises took place during the winter or in rainy weather. The ancient Romans applied the term to a covered garden walk with porticoes for winter exercise, or to a promenade between rows of large trees ...
Education for Greek people was vastly "democratized" in the 5th century B.C., influenced by the Sophists, Plato, and Isocrates. Later, in the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greece, education in a gymn school was considered essential for participation in Greek culture. The value of physical education to the ancient Greeks and Romans has been ...
Lyceum is a Latin rendering of the Ancient Greek Λύκειον (lykeion), the name of a gymnasium in Classical Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus. This original lyceum is remembered as the location of the peripatetic school of Aristotle.
The word gymnastics derives from the common Greek adjective γυμνός (gymnos), [4] by way of the related verb γυμνάζω (gymnazo), whose meaning is to "train naked", "train in gymnastic exercise", generally "to train, to exercise". [5] The verb had this meaning because athletes in ancient times exercised and competed without clothing.