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    <periodOfReport>2020-12-31</periodOfReport>

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    <form4TransactionsReported>0</form4TransactionsReported>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0001637207</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>Planet Fitness, Inc.</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>PLNT</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001649552</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Rondeau Christopher</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O PLANET FITNESS, INC.</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>4 LIBERTY LANE WEST</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>HAMPTON</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>NH</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>03842</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>true</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>true</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>false</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>false</isOther>
            <officerTitle>Chief Executive Officer</officerTitle>
            <otherText></otherText>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <nonDerivativeTable></nonDerivativeTable>

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        <derivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Holding Unit and Class B common stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <conversionOrExercisePrice>
                <value>0.00</value>
                <footnoteId id="F1"/>
            </conversionOrExercisePrice>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2020-10-16</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <deemedExecutionDate></deemedExecutionDate>
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                <transactionFormType>5</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>G</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>false</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness></transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>228519.00</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0.00</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>D</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
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            <exerciseDate>
                <footnoteId id="F1"/>
            </exerciseDate>
            <expirationDate>
                <footnoteId id="F1"/>
            </expirationDate>
            <underlyingSecurity>
                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Class A common stock</value>
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                <underlyingSecurityShares>
                    <value>228519.00</value>
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            </underlyingSecurity>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>1573333.00</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>I</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
                <natureOfOwnership>
                    <value>By Trust</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F2"/>
                </natureOfOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </derivativeTransaction>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Pursuant to the terms of the Exchange Agreement dated as of August 5, 2015, as amended, by and among the Company, Pla-Fit Holdings, LLC and the holders from time to time of Holding Units and shares of Class B common stock, the holders thereof may exchange all or a portion of their Holding Units along with an equal number of shares of Class B common stock for shares of Class A common stock of the Company on a one-to-one basis (one Holding Unit and one share of Class B common stock together exchangeable for one share of Class A common stock). The holders thereof are not required to pay an exercise price in connection with any such exchange. The Holding Units do not expire. The Class B common stock provides the holder with one vote on all matters submitted to a vote of the Company's stockholders but does not entitle the holder to any of the economic rights associated with shares of the Company's Class A common stock.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">On October 15, 2018, the reporting person contributed 1,000,000 Holdings Units and an equal number of shares of the Company's Class B common stock to a grantor retained annuity trust.  Upon termination of the trust on October 16, 2020, 228,519 of the Holdings Units and corresponding Class B shares were transferred to a trust for the benefit of the reporting person's former spouse in which the reporting person holds no interest.  The remaining 771,481 Holdings Units and corresponding Class B shares were previously distributed to the The Christopher J. Rondeau Revocable Trust of 2006, u/d/t 05/15/06 and are included in the indirect ownership total reported herein.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks></remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Justin Vartanian, Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2021-02-11</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
