Bodybuilding vs Fitness - What's the difference?
bodybuilding | fitness |
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.
(dated) Work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile.
* 2006 — (interview), Iron Man 65(5): 258
The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
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(UK, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.
As nouns the difference between bodybuilding and fitness
is that bodybuilding is while fitness is the condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.bodybuilding
English
(wikipedia bodybuilding)Alternative forms
* body-buildingNoun
(-)- 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.
- "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
* (English Citations of "bodybuilding")fitness
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(Physical fitness)Noun
(en-noun)citation, page= , passage=Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.}}