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Bodybuilding vs Weightlifting - What's the difference?

bodybuilding | weightlifting |

As nouns the difference between bodybuilding and weightlifting

is that bodybuilding is while weightlifting is a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.

bodybuilding

English

(wikipedia bodybuilding)

Alternative forms

* body-building

Noun

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  • 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."

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "bodybuilding")

    Related terms

    * bodybuilder

    weightlifting

    English

    Alternative forms

    * weight lifting

    Noun

  • A form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
  • (sports) A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.

    • Synonyms

    * (form of exercise): weight training

    See also

    * powerlifting * (versity)