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View synonyms for bodybuilding

bodybuilding

or bod·y-build·ing, bod·y build·ing

[ bod-ee-bil-ding ]

noun

  1. the act or practice of exercising, lifting weights, etc., so as to develop the muscles of the body.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bodybuilding1

1900–05; from the verb phrase build ( up one's ) body; -ing 1
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Example Sentences

Arnold Schwarzenegger famously employed friends to add and remove barbell plates to achieve this effect during his bodybuilding career.

It happens in Reddit threads, bodybuilding forums, and even Instagram pages discussing PEDs.

From Vox

Bodybuilding emerged as commercial enterprise, while college sports and recreational athletics like bicycling picked up.

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Scroll through any weightlifting or bodybuilding forum and it’s easy to feel out of the loop.

Morgan was remanded and on Monday he was on his way back to North Carolina, where he was once a bodybuilding champion.

He was a 44-year-old man from North Carolina who had done time in prison and had once been a bodybuilding champion.

He looked far smaller than the legendary Arnold of bodybuilding and movie days.

The world of competitive bodybuilding, and Gov. Schwarzenegger, owed its waxy life to androgens.

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