{{Short description|Large zippered bag with handles}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2024}} thumb|A leather holdall [[File:Deora Bodley, the youngest person aboard Flight 93 on 11 September 2001, has her gym bag on display from the wreckage of Flight 93 donated by her family at the CIA Museum.jpg|thumb|Gym bag recovered from the wreckage of Flight 93]]
In American English, a '''gym bag''' or '''carryall''' and in British English a '''sports bag''' is a large bag made of cloth or leather typically with a rectangular base and a zippered opening at the top. Two handles enable the bag to be carried, and a (usually removable) strap lets the user support the bag on the shoulders.
In British English, a '''holdall''' (or occasionally '''hold-all''') may be a similar bag but may often have wheels and possibly a telescopic handle. The term covers a wide variety of types of bag.
A ''gym bag'' is often misnamed a duffel bag. These misnamed ''"duffle bags"'' are cylindrical like a duffle bag, but zip open on the long, horizontal side, and have handles like a tote bag.
==Uses== [[File:Nationals catcher Jan Gomes (10) gets gear out of bag -- All-Pro Reels Ed Sheahin (49571480293).jpg|thumb|upright|Washington Nationals baseball gear bag]] A holdall is often used in place of a suitcase or for carrying sports equipment, and has the advantage over most suitcases of being compressible when empty.
A holdall is also used to carry bedding and blankets etc. Students, enrolled in military boarding schools in India, are issued a 'hold-all' to carry their blankets, quilts and clothes.<ref>Item No. 47 under 'Kit' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120815175506/http://dholpur.nic.in/ms.htm Military school Dolpur]</ref> It is a flat, rectangular, canvas bag, when unravelled. Once filled, it is rolled like a sleeping bag and held together with straps.
==See also== * Duffel bag
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