Gym
Gym noun - A building or room used for sports activities and exercising.
Sports
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Both words in one sentence
- Since gym teachers are almost uniformly portrayed as Sadist Teachers in the Drill Sergeant Nasty mold, they will favor kids who play sports or cheerlead, leaving the weak and nerdy to be trampled into the highly waxed floorboards.
Source: Gym Class Hell - Mr Mellor, the gym coach in The Goldbergs, who arouses complaints from the formidable Beverley Goldberg about her treatment of her (in this case) stereotypically Jewish son, who is not good at sports.
Source: Gym Class Hell - The main cast is a bunch of 6-year-old kids, and gym classes are held by a miserable, alcoholistic, smoking wreck of a man who sports a blossoming drinker's mound, hates children, and likes to think of himself as an irresistible ladies' man.
Source: Gym Class Hell
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