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Bodybuilding vs Fitness - What's the difference?

bodybuilding | fitness |

As nouns the difference between bodybuilding and fitness

is that bodybuilding is while fitness is the condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.

bodybuilding

Alternative forms

* body-building

Noun

(-)
  • 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.
  • (dated) Work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile.
  • * 2006 — (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."

    fitness

    English

    (Physical fitness)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
  • The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=April 11 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport 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.}}
  • (UK, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.
  • Synonyms

    * beauty, health * (condition of being suitable) strength, suitability, competence, capability * (condition of being attractive) see

    Antonyms

    * flab, sloth * (ability to perform) weakness

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