bodybuilding

See also: Bodybuilding and body-building

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EnglishEdit

Contestants at a bodybuilding competition.

Alternative formsEdit

• body-building

PronunciationEdit

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

• Audio (US)

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EtymologyEdit

body +‎ building

NounEdit

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."

QuotationsEdit

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:bodybuilding.

Related termsEdit

• bodybuilder

TranslationsEdit

sport of muscle development

• Arabic: كمال أجسام‎ m
• Armenian: բոդիբիլդինգ (bodibilding), կուլտուրիզմ (kulturizm)
• Catalan: culturisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

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

• Italian: culturismo (it) m, bodybuilding
• Japanese: ボディビル (bodibiru)
• Korean: 보디빌딩 (ko) (bodibilding)
• Macedonian: бо́дибилдинг m (bódibilding)
• Malay: bina badan
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kulturystyka f
• Portuguese: fisiculturismo (pt) m, culturismo m, fisioculturismo m
• 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 readingEdit

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

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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English bodybuilding.

NounEdit

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

1. bodybuilding

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English bodybuilding.

NounEdit

bodybuilding n (uncountable)

1. bodybuilding

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FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English bodybuilding.

NounEdit

bodybuilding

1. bodybuilding

DeclensionEdit

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

SynonymsEdit

• bodaus
• kehonrakennus

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English bodybuilding.

NounEdit

bodybuilding m (plural bodybuildings)

1. bodybuilding

SynonymsEdit

• culturisme

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English bodybuilding.

NounEdit

bodybuilding ?

1. bodybuilding

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bodybuilding

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	bodybuilding	bodybuildingen
genitive	bodybuildings	bodybuildingens

Related termsEdit

• bodybuilder

See alsoEdit

• kroppsbyggare
• muskelknutte
• styrketräning