natatorium means A swimming pool, especially an indoor one; a building housing one or more swimming pools. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why this word is great
NATATORIUM — [Noun] An indoor swimming pool, or the building that contains it. From Late Latin natatorium (“a swimming place”), from Latin natare (“to swim”) + -torium (“place for”). Unlike “piscine” (which neutrally denotes any pool, often open to the sky) or “plunge” (which suggests a brief, bracing dip in a small, utilitarian basin), a natatorium evokes a formal, echoing chamber consecrated to the act. It is the chlorinated stillness under a vaulted ceiling, the syncopated slap of a solitary swimmer’s stroke, and the pale, rippling light reflected onto dark rafters—a secular cathedral for the silent liturgy of laps, where one moves through a manufactured element, suspended between air and tile.
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- A swimming pool, especially an indoor one; a building housing one or more swimming pools.“This Association shall be known by the name, style and title of "The Natatorium and Institute for Scientific Instruction in the Improvement of the Physical Powers," and shall have for its object the attainment by scientific inquiry and investigation of the most desirable and beneficial mode of physical exercise, and by the scientific use of natatorial, orthopedic, gymnastic and such other physical”