From NoCal: Always P.E, even on the report card. Never called it gym, phys ed, or whatever the hell the other one was. In fact, none of the schools I ever went to even had a gymnasium, technically. It was always called the “multi-purpose room.” Even if it had basketball courts inside.
Texas: P.E. or gym.
I’m sorry, but the first thing this thread made me think of was the University of Texas course catalog, where Analytic Geometry was long listed as “Anal Geometry.”
It was always P.E. when I was at school here in Sydney.
P.E. or gym in TN. Sometimes phys ed, but phy ed would have earned one a wedgie.
Several of my friends took Anal. Chem. at McGill… :eek:
Never seen “Phy Ed” until this thread. That’s just so weird.
BTW, “Numerical Analysis” is “Num Anal”, for those of you scoring at home.
Never heard of “phy ed”. Here in New Brunswick, at least where I’m from, we called it either “phys ed” or “gym”. Of course, we used “gym” more often as short for “gymnasium” - where we actually took “phys ed”, and had “sock hops” in junior high. I’m sure some less athletically and/or socially inclined students had different names for the class and/or the dances. Like “hell” or “torture”. 
Anyhoo…
In Australia, when I went to school it was phys ed, my kids, P.E. Never gym.
So do y’all say fie-sical when you say the word which is abbreviated in your little fie ed scheme or does your abbreviation just make no sense?
I called it “that class taught by the asshole.”
I was justified-- he put the three shortest kids in school (me and two other guys) on a 3-on-3 basketball team against a trio of 7-footers
Brisbane, Australia. P.E. or “sport”. In primary school, always “sport”. Never gym, any time.
Victoria Australia - phys ed, P.E. or sport.
P.E. in elementary-high school (in central Illinois), Phy Ed when I got to college (in Minnesota).
I still remember that in first grade, on the first day of school, the P.E. teacher explained that it was not called “gym class” because we’d be going outside sometimes and not always be in the gym.
Oddly enough I heard a comedian on the radio refer to “phy ed” (fie-ed) class this morning. If it hadn’t been for this thread I would have still been puzzling over what he meant. The guy (I didn’t get his name) was from Wisconsin.
Gym class or P.E. in Tennessee. In college it was HPERS, pronounced High-pers. I’ve forgotten exactly what the letters stand for.