bodybuilding
See also: Bodybuilding and body-building
English
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editNoun
editbodybuilding (uncountable)
- A sport in which the aesthetics of muscular development is the basis for competition.
- 1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 7:
- 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.
- (dated) Work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile.
- 2006 — Larry Scott (interview), Iron Man 65(5): 258
- "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."
- 2006 — Larry Scott (interview), Iron Man 65(5): 258
Quotations
edit- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bodybuilding.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Finnish: bodybuilding, bodaus
- → Finnish: kehonrakennus (calque)
Translations
editsport of muscle development
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work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile
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Further reading
edit- bodybuilding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- bodybuilding on Wikiversity.Wikiversity
Danish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English bodybuilding.
Noun
editbodybuilding c (singular definite bodybuildingen, not used in plural form)
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English bodybuilding.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbodybuilding n (uncountable)
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editFinnish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English bodybuilding.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbodybuilding
- bodybuilding
- Synonyms: bodaus, kehonrakennus
Declension
editInflection of bodybuilding (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | bodybuilding | bodybuildingit | |
genitive | bodybuildingin | bodybuildingien | |
partitive | bodybuildingiä | bodybuildingejä | |
illative | bodybuildingiin | bodybuildingeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | bodybuilding | bodybuildingit | |
accusative | nom. | bodybuilding | bodybuildingit |
gen. | bodybuildingin | ||
genitive | bodybuildingin | bodybuildingien | |
partitive | bodybuildingiä | bodybuildingejä | |
inessive | bodybuildingissä | bodybuildingeissä | |
elative | bodybuildingistä | bodybuildingeistä | |
illative | bodybuildingiin | bodybuildingeihin | |
adessive | bodybuildingillä | bodybuildingeillä | |
ablative | bodybuildingiltä | bodybuildingeiltä | |
allative | bodybuildingille | bodybuildingeille | |
essive | bodybuildinginä | bodybuildingeinä | |
translative | bodybuildingiksi | bodybuildingeiksi | |
abessive | bodybuildingittä | bodybuildingeittä | |
instructive | — | bodybuildingein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
edit- “bodybuilding”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English bodybuilding.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbodybuilding m (plural bodybuildings)
- bodybuilding
- Synonym: culturisme
Swedish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English bodybuilding.
Noun
editbodybuilding c
Declension
editDeclension of bodybuilding | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | bodybuilding | bodybuildingen | — | — |
Genitive | bodybuildings | bodybuildingens | — | — |
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