Meanings
plural health clubs
- A facility with exercise equipment, and sometimes instructors, open to the public or those on some membership list.
2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii I did lots of push-ups and pull-ups, and my only regret is that I stopped doing them as a young adult when I finally got to work out in health clubs instead of my basement or garage.
Synonyms: fitness center, gym, gymnasium
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA facility with exercise equipment, and sometimes instructors, open to the public or those on some membership list.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 健身中心
- 健身中心 (jiànshēn zhōngxīn)facility with exercise equipment
Czech fitness centrum, fitko
- fitness centrumfacility with exercise equipment
- fitkofacility with exercise equipment
Dutch sportschool
- sportschoolfacility with exercise equipment
Finnish kuntosali
- kuntosalifacility with exercise equipment
French centre de remise en form, centre de fitness
- centre de remise en formfacility with exercise equipment
- centre de fitnessfacility with exercise equipment
German Fitnessstudio, Sportstudio
- Fitnessstudiofacility with exercise equipment
- Sportstudiofacility with exercise equipment
- Fitness-Centerfacility with exercise equipment
- Muckibudefacility with exercise equipment
Italian centro benessere
- centro benesserefacility with exercise equipment
Japanese フィットネスクラブ
- フィットネスクラブ (fitonesu kurabu)facility with exercise equipment
Korean 헬스 클럽
- 헬스 클럽 (helseu keulleop)facility with exercise equipment
Polish siłownia, siłka
- siłowniafacility with exercise equipment
- siłkafacility with exercise equipment
- fitness clubfacility with exercise equipment
- pakerniafacility with exercise equipment
- pakowniafacility with exercise equipment
Russian фи́тнес-клуб, спорти́вный клуб
- фи́тнес-клуб (fítnɛs-klub)facility with exercise equipment
- спорти́вный клуб (sportívnyj klub)facility with exercise equipment
- спорти́вно-оздорови́тельный центр (sportívno-ozdorovítelʹnyj centr)facility with exercise equipment
Cite this entry
health club. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/health%20club
“health club.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/health%20club. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “health club,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/health%20club.
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