[Vocabulary] Gymnastics lesson/class

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angelene001

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1.Every Saturday, I've got a gymnastics lesson.
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2.Every Saturday, I've got a gymnastics class.

Meaning I spend an hour at the sport center and do exercises to help my spine, to make me more flexible.

Are 'lesson' and 'class' interchangeable when I talk about things like drama, dancing, karate?
Or maybe 'class' is when you do something with a group, and 'lesson' when it is one-on-one?
 

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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary: lesson - a period of time in which somebody is taught something; class - an occasion when a group of students meets to be taught.
 

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For me, if you go to a gymnastics class, you are involved in the actual sport of gymnastics - tumbling, vault, beam, asymmetic bars, pommel, rings, high bar. If your class is for spine stretching, it is probably yoga or pilates or simply a "stretching class".
 
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