bodybuilding

See also: Bodybuilding and body-building

English

Alternative forms

• body-building

Etymology

From body +‎ building.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒdiˌbɪldɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːdiˌbɪldɪŋ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

bodybuilding (uncountable)

1. 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.

2. (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."

Quotations

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:bodybuilding.

Related terms

• bodybuilder

Translations

sport of muscle development

• Arabic: كَمَال أَجْسَام‎ m (kamāl ʾajsām)
• Armenian: բոդիբիլդինգ (hy) (bodibilding), կուլտուրիզմ (hy) (kulturizm)
• Catalan: culturisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 健美運動 (zh), 健美运动 (zh) (jiànměi yùndòng)

• Czech: kulturistika (cs) f
• Danish: bodybuilding
• Dutch: bodybuilding (nl)
• Esperanto: korpokulturado
• Finnish: kehonrakennus (fi)
• French: culturisme (fr) m, musculation (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bodybuilding (de) n
• Greek: σωματοδόμηση (el) f (somatodómisi)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: testépítés
• Icelandic: vaxtarrækt f
• Indonesian: binaraga (id)

• Irish: corpfhorbairt f
• Italian: culturismo (it) m, bodybuilding
• Japanese: ボディビル (bodibiru)
• Korean: 보디빌딩 (ko) (bodibilding)
• Macedonian: телоградба f (telogradba), бодибилдинг m (bodibilding)
• Malay: bina badan
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kulturystyka f
• Portuguese: fisiculturismo (pt) m, culturismo m, fisioculturismo m, musculação (pt) f
• Russian: культури́зм (ru) m (kulʹturízm), бодиби́лдинг (ru) m (bodibílding)
• Slovak: kulturistika f
• Spanish: fisicoculturismo (es), culturismo (es), musculación (es) m
• Swedish: bodybuilding
• Telugu: దేహదారుడ్యం (dēhadāruḍyaṃ)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: tập (vi) thể hình, tập tạ
• Welsh: corfflunio (cy)

work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile

• Finnish: korityö
• French: carrosserie (fr) f

• Spanish: carrocería (es) f

Further reading

• bodybuilding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bodybuilding on Wikiversity.Wikiversity

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bodybuilding.

Noun

bodybuilding c (singular definite bodybuildingen, not used in plural form)

1. bodybuilding

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English bodybuilding.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

bodybuilding n (uncountable)

1. bodybuilding

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bodybuilding.

Noun

bodybuilding

1. bodybuilding

   Synonyms: bodaus, kehonrakennus

Declension

Inflection of bodybuilding (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
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
instructive		—	bodybuildingein
abessive		bodybuildingittä	bodybuildingeittä
comitative		—	bodybuildingeineen

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English bodybuilding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.di.bil.diŋ/

Noun

bodybuilding m (plural bodybuildings)

1. bodybuilding

   Synonym: culturisme

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bodybuilding.

Noun

bodybuilding ?

1. bodybuilding

Declension

Declension of bodybuilding
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bodybuilding	bodybuildingen	—	—
Genitive	bodybuildings	bodybuildingens	—	—

Related terms

• bodybuilder

See also

• kroppsbyggare
• muskelknutte
• styrketräning