Noun
A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.
A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind.
Source: Webster's dictionaryChess is the gymnasium of the mind. Blaise Pascal
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. Swami Vivekananda
Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world. Swami Vivekananda
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943. Simon van der Meer
I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person. Tim Roth
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. Mary Kay Blakely