Gymnasium vs. Gymnastics — What's the Difference?

A room or building equipped for indoor sports.

Gymnastics is a sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups.

(gĭm-näzē-m′) An academic high school in some central European countries, especially Germany, that prepares students for the university.

(used with a pl. verb) Physical exercises designed to develop and display strength, balance, and agility, especially those performed on or with specialized apparatus.

(formal) A large room or building for indoor sports.

(used with a sing. verb) The art or practice of such exercises.

A type of secondary school in some European countries which typically prepares students for university.

Complex intellectual or artistic exercises

(historical) A public place or building where Ancient Greek youths took exercise, with running and wrestling grounds, baths, and halls for conversation.

(Informal) Feats of physical agility

A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.

A sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness.

A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; - used esp. of German schools of this kind.

Complex intellectual or artistic exercises or feats of physical agility.

A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12

Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises.

Athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training

Disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.

Feats demonstrating a quick mental agility; as, mental gymnastics, verbal gymnastics.

A sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility