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Gymnasiums

Scope note

Use for buildings designed and equipped for indoor, or, in antiquity, indoor and outdoor, sports, exercise, or physical education and training and usually including changing rooms and bath or shower facilites; in ancient Greece, often combined with educational facilities; generally larger than palaestrae.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

30007297

Broader Terms used

physical education buildings

Term used for

gyms

Equivalent Terms used

gymnasium

Created

13yrs ago

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