I, since am new to solidity, is there a way to make the reciever of the cryptocoins pay for gas rather than the sender?

no, every action where you modify a value on the blockchain, need to pay the miners to do so.
There is no tecnical way you can do that.
Maybe you can "pay" a payable call within the contract, but the network fees need to be paid from sender, you can't avoid that.

Using open gsn one can deploy smart contracts and the developers paying for gas on every transaction of their users without making their users pay for it. So I thought there must be a way to make the recipient pay for gas rather than the sender

seems like "he" will pay for extra, but you cannot use any function without the gas needed for the logics.

So is there a way to refund the gas to one party by taking it from some other party?

Yes, you can do multiple things in one transaction

O/