[Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

[Alan Mintz]

At 2011-04-09 20:41, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
>PS--To me, fitness centre would eliminate any possible confusion with 
>other usages of gym or gymnasium, but if gym has already been in wide 
>usage, it'll do.

+1 Not that I spend any time there myself :-|, but people that do almost 
universally call them gym(s).

>PPS--In the US, "gymnasium" is definitely not limited to places where 
>people do gymnastics, as mike said it's a large indoor room for a variety 
>of sports--like basketball and volleyball--and also sometimes events like 
>assemblies or dances.

... at a school. The long form of the word would normally cause one to 
think about such a multi-purpose building at a high school or elementary 
school. Colleges and universities generally have separate facilities for 
some of those things and name them more specifically. I never hear someone 
refer to one of the commercial fitness centers as a gymnasium.

 >I noticed a note on the bottom of the page that a bot changed ~1500 gyms 
to sport=gymnastics!?

If so, that was almost certainly wrong if people have been using the term 
as per US common usage.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>