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A temple where you pay monthly to voluntarily suffer, then brag about it.

means A place equipped with machines and weights for physical exercise and training.

from Short for 'gymnasium,' borrowed from Greek 'gymnasion' — a public place for training the body. That root traces to 'gymnos,' meaning 'naked,' because Greek athletes famously trained and competed in the nude. The word landed in English in the 1800s, got clipped to the snappy 'gym' by schoolkids and sports writers, and lost every trace of its bare-skinned origins along the way.

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