bodybuilding
See also: Bodybuilding and body-building
English edit
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bodybuilding (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.
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Finnish: bodybuilding, bodaus
- → Finnish: kehonrakennus (calque)
Translations edit
sport 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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English bodybuilding.
Noun edit
bodybuilding c (singular definite bodybuildingen, not used in plural form)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English bodybuilding.
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bodybuilding n (uncountable)
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Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English bodybuilding.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bodybuilding
- bodybuilding
- Synonyms: bodaus, kehonrakennus
Declension edit
Inflection 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] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English bodybuilding.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bodybuilding m (plural bodybuildings)
- bodybuilding
- Synonym: culturisme
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English bodybuilding.
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bodybuilding c
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Declension of bodybuilding | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | bodybuilding | bodybuildingen | — | — |
Genitive | bodybuildings | bodybuildingens | — | — |