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English

Alternative forms

• body-building

Etymology

From body +? building.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?di?b?ld??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??di?b?ld??/

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 quotations using this term, see Citations:bodybuilding.

Related terms

• bodybuilder

Translations

Further reading

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

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bodybuilding.

Noun

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

1. bodybuilding

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English bodybuilding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.di?b?l.d??/
• Hyphenation: bo?dy?buil?ding

Noun

bodybuilding n (uncountable)

1. bodybuilding

Related terms

• bodybuilder
• bodybuildster

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bodybuilding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?di?bildi?/, [?b?di?bildi?]
• IPA^(key): /?bodi?bildi?/, [?bo?di?bildi?]

Noun

bodybuilding

1. bodybuilding

   Synonyms: bodaus, kehonrakennus

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English bodybuilding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?.di.bil.di?/

Noun

bodybuilding m (plural bodybuildings)

1. bodybuilding

   Synonym: culturisme

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bodybuilding.

Noun

bodybuilding ?

1. bodybuilding

Declension

Related terms

• bodybuilder

See also

• kroppsbyggare
• muskelknutte
• styrketräning

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?ks??/
• (General American) enPR: bäks??ng, IPA^(key): /?b??ks??/
• Rhymes: -?ks??
• Hyphenation: box?ing

Etymology 1

From box (“to punch”) +? -ing.

Verb

boxing

1. present participle of box

Noun

boxing (uncountable)

1. (sports) A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists, the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.

Synonyms

• (sports): fisticuffs, pugilism, sparring

Hyponyms

• kickboxing
• shadowboxing

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• boxing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• boxing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From box +? -ing.

Noun

boxing (plural boxings)

1. Material used for making boxes or casing.
2. (construction) Casing.
3. (object-oriented programming) Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.

Antonyms

• (programming): unboxing

Hyponyms

• autoboxing

Translations

Verb

boxing

1. present participle of box