leotard

English

Etymology

from the French acrobat Jules Léotard.

Noun

A gymnast in a sleeveless leotard.

Wikipedia leotard (plural leotards)

1. A skin-tight one-piece garment with long sleeves and no legs, often worn by dancers, acrobats etc.

Translations

skin-tight one piece suit of clothing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緊身衣 (cmn), 紧身衣 (cmn) (jǐnshēnyī)

• Finnish: trikoot (fi) pl, voimistelupuku (fi)
• French: justaucorps (fr) m
• German: Leotard (de) n
• Ido: malyoto (io)

• Italian: body (it) m
• Japanese: レオタード (ja) (reotādo)
• Portuguese: malha (pt) f, collant (pt) m
• Russian: леотард (ru) (leotárd) m, трико (ru) (trikó) n (indeclinable)
• Spanish: leotardo (es) m

Derived terms

• unitard