Meaning of gym knickers | Babel Free

Definitions

Large girls' underpants traditionally worn as shorts during school sports activities.

UK, plural, plural-only

Examples

“"But instead of going there, I sneaked into the Trunchbull's room. And after a speedy search I found the drawer where she kept all her gym knickers."”

“I never knew why they singled me out, though at the time I believed it was because my mother made me wear green gym knickers and everyone else's were navy or white.”

“I remember being forced to do cross-country runs in horrible navy gym knickers, which is a nightmare when you're not exactly built like Paula Radcliffe [...].”

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