Editing Changing room (section)

===Communal changing rooms===
[[File:Lockers in modern change room.JPG|thumb|left|Lockers and bench in changeroom]]
Locker rooms are thus named because they provide lockers for the storage of one's belongings. Alternatively, they may have a locker room attendant who will keep a person's belongings until one comes to retrieve them. Locker rooms are usually open spaces where people change together, but there are separate areas, or separate locker rooms, for men and women. Sometimes they are used in swimming complexes.

[[Lock (security device)|Locking]] devices used in locker rooms have traditionally been key or coin lockers, or lockers that are secured with a [[combination lock]]. Newer locker rooms may be automated, with robotic machines to store clothes, with such features as a fingerprint scanner to enroll and for later retrieval. Locker rooms in some water parks use a microchip equipped wristband. The same wristband that unlocks the lockers can be used to purchase food and drinks and other items in the water park.

Some communal changing rooms are only supposed to be used by groups of persons, not individuals. In this case, there may be no lockers. Instead, the entire room is locked in order to protect belongings from theft.

Locker rooms are also used in many middle schools and high schools. Most of them include showers for after Physical Education.

At an outdoor sports facility, the changing rooms may be integrated into a [[Pavilion#Free-standing_structures|pavilion]] or clubhouse, with other facilities such as seating or a bar.