Monday, January 17, 2011

The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means ''to exercise naked.''

The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means ''to exercise naked.''


Why? Gumnazein (a slightly different transliteration from the Greek) came to mean "train, practice" after gumnos "naked", because it was common in ancient Greece for athletes to train with no clothes on.

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