Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 A room, especially in a gym, designed for people to change their clothes. 2 A room or enclosure, e.g. in a clothes shop, where people try on clothes they are interested in buying.
Wikipedia
A changing room, locker room, dressing room (usually in a sports, theater or staff context) or changeroom (regional use) is a room or area designated for changing one's clothes. Changing rooms are provided in a semi-public situation to enable people to change clothes in privacy, either individually or on a gender basis.
Separate changing rooms may be provided for men and women, or there may be a non-gender specific open space with individual cubicles or stalls. Sometimes a person may change his or her clothes in a toilet cubicle of a washroom. Many changing rooms include washrooms and showers. Sometimes a changing room exists as a small portion of a washroom. For example, the men's and women's washrooms in Toronto's Dundas Square (which includes a waterplay area) each include a change area which is a blank counter space at the end of a row of sinks. In this case, the facility is primarily a washroom, and its use as a changing room is minimal, since only a small percentage of users change into bathing suits.
Larger changing rooms are usually found at public beaches, or other bathing areas, where most of the space is for changing, and minimal washroom space is included. Beach-style changing rooms are often large open rooms with benches against the walls. Some do not have a roof, providing just the barrier necessary to prevent persons outside from seeing in.
Changing room may refer to:
- changeroom, a room or enclosure in a clothing store where customers may try on clothes before purchasing them
- Changing Rooms, a BBC television series
- The Changing Room, a stage play by David Storey
Usage examples of "changing room".
One afternoon during swimming hour, the tin door of the changing room clanged open and shut.
I had been going to give it to Steve to give to her, but as she was there herself, she could have it: it was in my bag in the changing room.
We leave the changing room and find a speedball that isn't being used.
He scowled down at me, then turned on his heel and pushed his way out of the changing room against the incoming tide of the jockeys returning from the last race.
Then he pulled the outer door shut, and when the lock was pumped, pulled her through the inner door into the changing room.
He went back to the lock and went inside, took off his helmet and walker and boots in the changing room and stripped, went into the showers and showered, dried off and put on a jumper, combed his hair.
Working one day on changing room cabinets, she looked down at her sketches and felt a wash of deja vu, and wondered if she had done exactly this bit of work before, sometime in the lost past.
They took their masks off inside the lock, and then they were back in the refuge's changing room, rubbing their eyes and blowing into their gloved hands.
On the bench of the changing room were underclothes, socks, and a shirt.
Marta prowled, sending Esmay into the changing room again and again until she was happy with the result—.