gym bag
A gym bag is a bag , the transport of sneakers , gym shorts and -hemd and tracksuit serves. It is mainly made of fabric and is usually closed with a pull cord. It is especially worn by kindergarten children and younger students on days with physical education classes in addition to their school bags . In the meantime, the gym bag has largely been replaced by the more spacious sports bag , which offers more space for sports equipment and care products. In Switzerland and parts of Austria, the gym bag is also known as a gym sack .
The concept of the gym bag appeared in the German language in the mid-1950s. In the curricula it was specified that as part of the “compliance with the basic rules of hygiene ”, attention should be paid to “clean gym clothes and gym bags” in addition to body cleaning and keeping exercise areas clean.
In 2010 the gym bag experienced a fashion trend as a lifestyle utensil in the creative industry. Since then, the sports bag has (often simply called bag) in the 2010s to a widespread alternative to the backpack or bag (z. B. for handbag) developed for almost every occasion. For sporting activities, however, the sports bag is usually chosen.
Derived words
The popular excuse of having forgotten the gym bag - in order to avoid physical education - led to the mockery of "gym bag forget", a group that the comedian Bastian Pastewka belongs to.
There is also a screen saver for the PC called Gym Bag Forgot which shows synonyms for the figurative meaning wimp .
Gym bag loser is a dirty word for men with female body language.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden.de , accessed on September 18, 2012
- ↑ Information about the gym bag , accessed on September 18, 2012
- ↑ Google Ngram Viewer
- ^ Ministry of National Education of the GDR (ed.): Curriculum of the ten-class general polytechnic high school . People and knowledge 1959, p. 5 u. 148
- ↑ dpa: The comeback of the gym bag. In: Ostsee-Zeitung. October 21, 2010, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; accessed on June 23, 2017 .
- ↑ The national high bar upswing - 200 years of gymnastics in Germany (PDF; 107 kB) p. 2, accessed on September 18, 2012
- ↑ The gym bag forgetful. In: Berliner Zeitung of January 6, 2005.
- ↑ Turnbag forgotten on chip.de from May 16, 2007
- ↑ Turnbag forgotten on netzwelt.de from May 12, 2007.
- ↑ Nadine Kmoth: Body rhetoric: A guide to reading and showing minds , p. 98 online