bath house
Communal steam facility
A bath house is a building with facilities for bathing, often communal.
Public bath houses have served hygienic and social functions across cultures—Roman thermae, Japanese sento, Turkish hammams.
In contemporary use, bath house often refers specifically to establishments where gay men meet for sex: He spent Saturday night at the bath house.
- day spaFacility offering treatments, no lodging
- spa dayPampering outing at resort
- steam roomHeated humidity enclosure
- eucalyptus steamHeated gum-leaf vapor
- plunge poolSmall cold-water basin
hot tub · cold plunge · hygiene · Finnish sauna · wellness retreat · relaxation · socializing · cleansing rituals · hammam · meditation · exfoliation · body scrub · onsen · massage therapy · changing rooms · aromatherapy · hydrotherapy · skylights
- onsenonsen, hot spring, ryokan, thermal pools, soaking
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- bathshot tub, sauna, tub, hammam, mikveh
- spashealth spa, day spa, hot spring, mineral spring, thermal spring
- estate buildingsmansion, gatehouse, outbuilding, lodge, greenhouse
- PompeiiPompeii, Vesuvius, Mount Vesuvius, Herculaneum, eruption