0 someone who spends a lot of time exercising in the gym, and who cares very much about the shape and condition of their body:
According to the American Council on Exercise, gym rats are focusing less on looking good and more on feeling good.
Gym rats will always take advantage of benefits like discounted health club memberships - but they would probably work out anyway.
Lots of college players are gym rats who had a key to the gym in high school.
In basketball, they have a word for a kid like that who always hangs around the gym. They call him a gym rat, so I guess that's what you could have called me.
His lack of production, he later admitted, turned him into a gym rat and motivated him to work harder than everyone else to improve his game.
He is the ultimate gym rat.
Clarke is often referred to as a gym rat because of his work ethic.
Donovan was described as a gym rat who would play basketball as often as possible, even sneaking into his high school gymnasium late at night to practice.
