turnhalle

English

Etymology

German, from turnen (“to exercise, do gymnastics”) + Halle (“hall”).

Noun

turnhalle (plural turnhalles or turnhallen)

1. A building used as a school of gymnastics, mostly in German contexts.
   • 2005, Kathryn M. Galchutt, The Career of Andrew Schulze, 1924-1968: Lutherans and Race in the Civil Rights Era:

     The Cincinnati Forty-eighters were the first emigres who established a Turnhalle, a recreation center for the development of mind and body.

   • 2011, Peter N. Pero, Chicago's Pilsen Neighborhood, page 53:

     The Germans built turnhalles, and the Czechs created something similar called sokols.

Alternative forms

• turnhall

Related terms

• turner
• turnverein

References

• “turnhalle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.