Athletic games. The word is from gymnaʹsium, a public place set apart in Greece for athletic sports, the actors in which were naked. (Greek, gumnos, naked.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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