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{{Short description|Room where one can change their clothes}}
{{Other uses|Changing room (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:HK 堅尼地城 Kennedy Town 士美非路市政大廈 Smithfield Municipal Services Building 更衣室 changing room Sept-2011.jpg|thumb|Changing room inside a sports hall]]

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A '''changing room''', '''locker room''' (usually in a sports, theater, or staff context), or '''changeroom''' (regional use) is a room or area designated for changing one's clothes. Changing-rooms are provided in a semi-public situation to enable people to change clothes with varying degrees of privacy.

[[File:Cabines-d'essayage-Copenhague.jpg|thumb|right|A block of clothing store fitting rooms in Denmark]]
A '''fitting room''', or '''dressing room''', is a room where people try on clothes, such as in a department store.

Separate changing rooms may be [[Sex segregation|provided for men and women]], or there may be a non-gender-specific open space with individual cubicles or stalls,<ref>[http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/projects_redevelopment/universal-change-room.aspx Queen Elizabeth Pool, Edmonton, Canada] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927015609/http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/projects_redevelopment/universal-change-room.aspx |date=September 27, 2013 }}</ref> as with [[unisex public toilet]]s. Many changing rooms include toilets, sinks and showers. Sometimes a changing room exists as a small portion of a restroom/washroom. For example, the men's and women's washrooms in Toronto's [[Yonge–Dundas Square]] (which includes a water play area) each include a change area which is a blank counter space at the end of a row of sinks. In this case, the facility is primarily a washroom, and its use as a changing room is minimal, since only a small percentage of users change into [[bathing suit]]s. Sometimes a person may change their clothes in a toilet cubicle of a washroom. 

[[File:Changing rooms on Äijälänranta beach.jpg|thumb|Changing rooms at the Äijälänranta Beach in [[Jyväskylä]], [[Finland]]]]
Larger changing rooms are usually found at public beaches, or other bathing areas, where most of the space is for changing, and minimal washroom space is included. Beach-style changing rooms are often large open rooms with benches against the walls. Some do not have a roof, providing just the barrier necessary to prevent people outside from seeing in.