bodybuilding

See also Bodybuilding

English

Wikipedia

Contestants at a bodybuilding competition.

Alternative forms

• body-building

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈbɒdiˌbɪldɪŋ/
• (US) IPA: /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 usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Related terms

• bodybuilder

Translations

sport of muscle development

• Arabic: كمال أجسام (ar) m
• Catalan: culturisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: kulturistika (cs) f
• Danish: bodybuilding (da)
• Dutch: bodybuilding (nl)
• Finnish: kehonrakennus (fi)
• French: culturisme (fr) m
• German: Bodybuilding (de) n
• Greek: σωματοδόμηση (el) (somatoðómisi) f
• Icelandic: líkamsrækt f, vaxtarrækt f
• Indonesian: binaraga (id)

• Italian: culturismo (it) m, bodybuilding (it)
• Japanese: ボディビル (ja) (bodibiru)
• Macedonian: бодибилдинг (mk) (bódibilding) m
• Malay: bina badan
• Polish: kulturystyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: fisiculturismo (pt) m, culturismo (pt) m, fisioculturismo (pt) m
• Russian: культуризм (ru) (kul’turízm) m, бодибилдинг (ru) (bódibilding, bodibílding) m
• Slovak: kulturistika (sk) f
• Spanish: fisicoculturismo (es), culturismo (es), musculación (es) m
• Swedish: bodybuilding (sv)
• Telugu: దేహదారుడ్యం (deahadaaruDyam)
• Welsh: corfflunio (cy)

work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile

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

• Spanish: carrocería (es) f

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Danish

Noun

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

1. bodybuilding

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Dutch

Etymology

From English bodybuilding.

Noun

bodybuilding n (uncountable)

1. bodybuilding

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Finnish

Noun

bodybuilding

1. bodybuilding

Declension

Declension of bodybuilding (type risti) singular plural nominative bodybuilding bodybuildingit genitive bodybuildingin bodybuildingien partitive bodybuildingiä bodybuildingejä accusative bodybuilding bodybuildingin bodybuildingit 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

Synonyms

• bodaus
• kehonrakennus

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Swedish

Noun

bodybuilding

1. bodybuilding

Declension

Declension of bodybuilding

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	bodybuilding	bodybuildingen
genitive	bodybuildings	bodybuildingens

Related terms

• bodybuilder

See also

• kroppsbyggare
• muskelknutte
• styrketräning