swimsuit

English

Woman wearing a swimsuit

Girls wearing swimsuits

Etymology

swim +‎ suit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swɪm.s(j)ut/

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Noun

swimsuit (plural swimsuits)

1. A garment worn for swimming.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:swimsuit

   Put on your swimsuit and let's go for a swim.

2. A tight-fitting one-piece garment worn by women and girls.

   Jade refused to go swimming with her brother until he helped her find her favorite swimsuit.

Synonyms

• bathers (Australia)
• bathing suit
• budgie smugglers (Australia, slang)
• cossie (Australia)
• dookie (Scotland)
• swimmers (Australia)
• swimming costume
• swimming trunks/swim trunks (the male bottom that resembles shorts)
• togs (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand)

Translations

garment worn for swimming

• Armenian: լողազգեստ (hy) (loġazgest)
• Basque: bainujantzi
• Catalan: banyador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泳裝／泳装 (zh) (yǒngzhuāng), 游泳衣 (zh) (yóuyǒngyī), 泳衣 (zh) (yǒngyī)

• Dutch: badpak (nl)
• Finnish: uimapuku (fi), uima-asu (fi)
• French: maillot de bain (fr) m
• Galician: traxe de baño (gl) m
• German: Badebekleidung (de) f
• Hebrew: בֶּגֶד יָם (he) m (béged yám)
• Hungarian: fürdőruha (hu)
• Indonesian: baju renang (id)
• Italian: costume da bagno m
• Japanese: 水着 (ja) (みずぎ, mizugi)
• Kazakh: шомылу киімі (şomylu kiımı), су киімі (su kiımı)
• Korean: 수영복(水泳服) (ko) (suyeongbok)
• Latin: vestis balnearis f, subligaculum balneare n
• Maranao: basa'an
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: badetøy n, badedrakt m or f (dated)

  Nynorsk: badetøy n, badedrakt f (dated)

• Occitan: malhòt de banh m
• Polish: strój kąpielowy (pl) m, kostium kąpielowy (pl) m, kąpielówki (pl) pl (men's)
• Portuguese: traje de banho m (Brazil), fato de banho (pt) m (Portugal)
• Romanian: costum de baie n
• Russian: купа́льный костю́м m (kupálʹnyj kostjúm), (women’s) купа́льник (ru) m (kupálʹnik), (men’s) пла́вки (ru) f pl (plávki)
• Scottish Gaelic: briogais-shnàimh
• Spanish: bañador (es) m, traje de baño (es) m
• Swedish: badkläder (sv) c pl, badplagg n
• Ukrainian: купа́льний костю́м m (kupálʹnyj kostjúm), купа́льник m (kupálʹnyk)
• Vietnamese: đồ bơi (涂𬈺), trang phục bơi (裝服𬈺)

tight-fitting one-piece garment

• Finnish: kokouimapuku (fi), uimapuku (fi)
• Hungarian: úszódressz (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: badedrakt m or f

  Nynorsk: badedrakt f

• Swedish: baddräkt (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: swemklere, swempak
• Arabic: لِبَاس سِبَاحَة m (libās sibāḥa)

  Egyptian Arabic: مايو m (maayuu)

• Bulgarian: бански костюм m (banski kostjum)
• Catalan: vestit de bany m, banyador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 游泳衣 (jau⁴ wing⁶ ji¹)

• Czech: plavky (cs) f pl
• Danish: badedragt c
• Dutch: badpak (nl) n
• Esperanto: bankostumo
• Estonian: trikoo
• French: maillot (fr) m, maillot de bain (fr) m, costume de bain (fr) m
• German: Badeanzug (de) m, Schwimmanzug (de) m
• Greek: μαγιό (el) n (magió)
• Hebrew: בגד ים (he) m (beged yam)
• Icelandic: sundföt (is) n pl, sundbolur (is) m
• Indonesian: pakaian renang (id)
• Irish: culaith shnámha f
• Italian: costume da bagno m, costume (it) m
• Japanese: 海水着 (かいすいぎ, kaisuigi), 水泳着 (すいえいぎ, suieigi)
• Latvian: peldkostīms m
• Lithuanian: maudymosi kostiumas m
• Maltese: malja f
• Maori: kahu kakau, kahu kaukau
• Persian: لباس شنا (lebâs-e šenâ), مایو (fa) (mâyo)
• Portuguese: traje de banho m, roupa de banho f, fato de banho (pt)
• Romanian: costum de baie n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: купаћи костим m

  Roman: kupaći kostim m

• Slovak: plavky f pl
• Slovene: kopalke (sl) f pl
• Spanish: traje de baño (es) m (especially Latin America), bañador (es) m (Spain), calzón de baño m (Mexico), calzonera f (Southeastern Mexico), calzoneta f (Guatemala), calzoneta de baño f (El Salvador, Nicaragua), malla de baño f (Argentina, Uruguay), ropa de baño f (Peru), terno de baño m (Ecuador), trusa f (Cuba), vestido de baño m (Colombia, Panama)
• Tagalog: damit-pampaligo, banyakot
• Thai: ชุดว่ายน้ำ (th) (chút wâai náam)
• Turkish: mayo (tr)
• Vietnamese: quần áo bơi, đồ tắm
• Welsh: siwt nofio (cy) m

See also

• bikini
• boardies
• board shorts
• monokini
• neck-to-knee
• skinny dipping
• swimming shorts
• swimming trunks
• swimwear