athletize
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Verb edit
athletize (third-person singular simple present athletizes, present participle athletizing, simple past and past participle athletized)
- (intransitive) To get athletic or act in an athletic way.
- 1895, Godey's Magazine - Volume 131, page 384:
- I neither rode recklessly, flirted'desperately, carried clothes imperially, turned men's heads, broke their hearts, sang divinely, athletized, literatized, antagonized.
- 1991, Fidelis Odun Balogun, Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story:
- We must remember that they are athletes, now athletes do not 'sleep': they are forever athletizing: awake or dreaming.
- You won't athletize without regular exercise.
- (transitive) To make athletic.
- 1859, The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine, page 296:
- To do this rightly, a certain and well-chosen series of exercises, calculated to athletize the Intellect, will require to be undertaken, and in its accomplishment certain qualities of thought will be elicited, produced, or won and nourished.
- 1926, Arthur Stringer, Cristina and I:
- But if woman is still to be regarded as the mother of our race, it's high time to ask if this over-athletized framework of bone and sinew, with its muscle-bound torso and its over-tensioned nerves and its stultified glands, is equipped for its final job.
- 1999 January 6, colin odden, “A drummer that NO ONE can copy!”, in rec.music.makers.percussion[2] (Usenet):
- Sometimes I think that disco and the red hot chili peppers ruined funk music by 1) forcing a great, raw & organic funky music into an electronic context, and 2) making every jock-rock idiot bass player think that funk is about athletizing music and slapping and popping a whole lot.
- Months of training finally athletized my skinny body.