bodybuilding
noun/ˈbɒ.diˌbɪl.dɪŋ/UK/ˈbɑ.diˌbɪl.dɪŋ/US
Etymology
From body + building.
- inherited from byldynge
Definitions
A sport in which the aesthetics of muscular development is the basis for competition.
- Like those activities, bodybuilding is an obsession, a living (for a few), and a way of life for the people involved in it—a subculture, in a word, with its own values, aesthetics and vocabulary.
Work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile.
- In my day, if you filled out your shirt, people assumed you played football or wrestled. The term bodybuilding had more to do with cars than lifting weights.
The neighborhood
- neighborbodybuilder
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bodybuilding. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA