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a temple of sweat where the Greeks worked out completely naked and called it education
means A large room or building equipped for indoor sports and physical exercise, or in some countries a type of academic secondary school.
from Straight from the Greek gymnasion, the place where young men trained — and the root is gymnos, meaning 'naked,' because that's exactly how they exercised. The same gymnos hides inside 'gymnosperm' (a plant with 'naked seeds'). The athletic sense came into English first; the 'school' meaning was borrowed later through German and Latin, where the gymnasium became an academy of the mind rather than the body — though both, the Greeks would argue, were the same education.
- name origin
- From gymnos, Greek for naked
- more than muscle
- Ancient versions taught philosophy, not just push-ups
- german twist
- In Germany it means an academic high school
- plato's spot
- His Academy was built around a gymnasium
ancient olympic gymnasium — training facility in elis, greece where athletes prepared for the olympic games starting 776 bce
plato's academy gymnasium — in athens, where plato taught philosophy around 387 bce, one of the first institutions of higher learning
german gymnasium system — secondary school type in germany, austria, and switzerland emphasizing classical education and academic preparation