A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college

Usage examples of gymnasium.

It was after we had left the shabby little gymnasium and were following Bling back across the campus that an obvious possibility suddenly occurred to me.

Friday penance sessions in the gymnasium continued to delight him and prevent his boredom, for he attended them from his secret hiding place in the Snuggery and, at times, just as we have already described, crept out when the culprits were blindfold and pinioned, to feel their bosoms and bottoms and sometimes even, when the mood seized him, to fustigate their plump white backsides and revel in their squirmings and sobbing pleas for pardon.

The atrium connected the two older buildings that comprised the high school and led to the entrance of the gymnasium.

She catalogued her town: a library, four pharmacies, three banks, a gymnasium for power-lifting and another that metamorphosed into a billiard hall, a market twice a week, a hypermarket that had opened with feathery widgeon stuffed in the freezer and now sold frozen pizza, a cordon of new pink apartment buildings and cinema on Fridays.

That is why the dimensions of our apartment slowly dwindled, as did the Jesuit Garden, and the stadium of the Karol Szajnocha II State Gymnasium, where I went for eight years.

Arcole pursued those exercises learned in the gymnasiums of the Levan, he attracted the catcalls of mariners and prisoners alike.

Writing about my teachers, I feel with growing dissatisfaction that I have fallen into one of the many ruts made by generations of professional memoirists, where one speaks of the gymnasium as a dollhouse -- from above, at a distance, with a sad smile, the pedagogues presented in gentle, forgiving caricature.

While there clarity prevailed over all mysteries, we trained our muscles in a mysterious twilight: our gymnasium had ogival windows, their panes broken up by rosettes and flamboyant tracery.

Also there were Saturday-night dance classes, socially mandatory, between the two schools, held in our gymnasium under the tutelage of Miss Something-or-Other, where, in respective taffeta dresses and dark suits, we learned the fox-trot, the waltz, the rhumba, and the Mexican hat dance.

During a trip to the gymnasium, Cranston introduced Harry to the physical director, a chunky, affable man named Tom Rydal, who had done wonders with his job.

Appearing there as Cranston, The Shadow witnessed considerable excitement that terminated when Tom Rydal appeared from an elevator, summoned by a call to the gymnasium.

I started barnstorming the hick towns, putting on my act in high school gymnasiums and farm auctions and anyplace else that would have me.

There were recreation parks, gymnasiums, baths of various kinds, such as hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, and others.

The German children play at the Mensur in the nursery, rehearse it in the gymnasium.

Buchan blithely misinformed reporters in the gymnasium of Crawford Middle School, which served as the press filing center.