The story
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromγυμναστής“trainer of athletes”
- English todaygymnast
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γυμναστής (gumnastḗs, “trainer of athletes”), from γυμνάζω (gumnázō, “I train naked, exercise”), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.