[Tagging] Adding leisure=sports_hall to leisure=sports_centre page

[Steve Doerr]

On 07/09/2019 01:33, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
> Re: > "My UK school had both a gym and a sports hall."
>
> What was the difference between the two? Was the gym like a "fitness
> centre" for weight training, perhaps? In US English we tend to use
> "gym" for what seems to be a "sports hall" in some dialects, and also
> for "weight lifting gyms" and "fitness centres" full of exercise
> equipment.

The sports hall was a big echoy place with a concrete floor, on which 
lines were painted in different colours for different sports. You'd use 
the whole space for a game of five-a-side football (soccer) or 
basketball, or else there was room for three or four badminton courts to 
be set up next to each other. Table-tennis tables could also be wheeled 
out, I think.

The gym(nasium) was much smaller, shiny wooden floor, equipped with 
things like a vaulting horse, parallel bars, wall bars and hanging ropes 
for climbing, and there were things like medicine balls and bean bags 
for exercising, rubber mats to put down on the floor etc. Basically for 
gymnastics and general physical exercise, rather than sports as such. No 
exercise *machines* back then, but I see from the school's website that 
has changed a bit: 
https://0e58658be539ee7325a0-220f04f871df648cf4a4d93a111e3366.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/williamson/uploads/asset_image/2_477_e.jpg

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Steve

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