Bathroom

A bathroom is a <a href="/facts/Room_(architecture)/vQYBfyo8">room</a> in which people wash their bodies or parts thereof. It can contain one or more of the following plumbing fixtures: a <a href="/facts/Shower/5WlBdgPp">shower</a>, a <a href="/facts/Bathtub/8808jPhL">bathtub</a>, a <a href="/facts/Bidet/QDYVFP7M">bidet</a>, and a <a href="/facts/Sink/MQTNL1bh">sink</a> (also known as a wash basin in the <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">United Kingdom</a>). A <a href="/facts/Toilet/7nGlw1aB">toilet</a> is also frequently included. There are also specific <a href="/facts/Toilet_(room)/mT5s2seK">toilet rooms</a>, only containing a toilet (often accompanied by a sink), which in <a href="/facts/American_English/sdAfgPgM">American English</a> tend to be called "bathrooms", "powder rooms" or "washrooms", as <a href="/facts/Euphemism/S3j2eHnU">euphemisms</a> to conceal their actual purpose, while they in <a href="/facts/British_English/ymJR5Rnd">British English</a> are known as just "toilets" or possibly "cloakrooms" - but also as "lavatories" when they are <a href="/facts/Public_toilet/ysT24WLM">public</a>.
Historically, bathing was often a collective activity, which took place in <a href="/facts/Public_bathing/1Fn30eqG">public baths</a>. In some countries, the shared social aspect of cleansing the body is still important, for example with <a href="/facts/Sent%25C5%258D/ry70sADW">sento</a> in Japan and, throughout the Islamic world, the <a href="/facts/Hammam/wzh8T5UT">hammam</a> (also known in the West as a "Turkish bath").

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Bathroom