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A 'medium' can really be anything. In physics we usually talk about waves traveling through a medium, which basically means that waves are travelling through a material.
We can probably just replace the words 'a medium' with 'something'. That 'something' can be anything.
Air, water, glass, metal, rock; any of these could be a medium. The only thing that cannot be a medium is nothing, i.e. a vacuum.
Side note: plural of 'medium' would be 'media'.
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