sportswear

English

Etymology

From sports +‎ -wear.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sportswear (uncountable)

1. Casual clothing that is comfortable to wear when exercising or partaking in sport; activewear.

   Synonym: sportwear

   • 2002 January 29, Suzy Menkes, “PARIS FASHION : Wind of Change:New Formality With a Rugged Edge”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Yohji Yamamoto's strength was to stick with the sportswear that has inspired him since he teamed up with Adidas to create the imaginative pin-striped or painted-denim footwear that walked his grass-turf runway.

Descendants

• → Japanese: スポーツウェア (supōtsuwea)
• → Korean: 스포츠웨어 (seupocheuweeo)

Translations

casual clothing for sport or excercise

• Bulgarian: спортно облекло n (sportno obleklo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 運動服 / 运动服 (zh) (yùndòngfú)

• Dutch: sportkleding (nl) f
• Finnish: urheiluvaatteet
• French: vêtement de sport m
• German: Sportbekleidung (de) f
• Japanese: スポーツウェア (ja) (supōtsuwea)
• Korean: 스포츠웨어 (seupocheuweeo), 운동복(運動服) (ko) (undongbok), 체육복(體育服) (ko) (cheyukbok)
• Polish: odzież sportowa f
• Russian: спорти́вный костю́м (ru) m (sportívnyj kostjúm)
• Spanish: ropa deportiva f

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