Lycra

[ lahy-kruh ]

Trademark.

1. a brand of spandex.

Lycra

/ ˈlaɪkrə /

noun

1. a type of synthetic elastic fabric and fibre used for tight-fitting garments, such as swimming costumes

Example Sentences

Despite difficult times, and at the very beginning not liking cycling's "helmets, Lycra and baffling" terminology, she sees her future in the sport.

From BBC

Because once, that ravenous desire for uniqueness — seen in our skin-tight lycra with a cartoonish depiction of what looks like the Milky Way, worn with studded Jeffrey Campbell Litas for good measure — was a vehicle powerful enough to launch someone into transcendence.

From Los Angeles Times

"So yes there may be a layer of Lycra between us, but you are still there and still having to truly immerse yourself in this scene."

From BBC

Cavalli was largely unknown outside Europe, until, in the 1990s, he reinvented luxury denim, first with the sandblasted look and then, in a stroke of invention, by putting Lycra in jeans to make them fit snugger and sexier.

From Seattle Times

In 1995, he collaborated with Lycra to create the first stretchy jeans.

From Los Angeles Times