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Definitions

body-building

ADJECTIVE
healthful/healthy
Synonyms
WEAK
advantageous aiding aseptic beneficial benign bracing cathartic clean compensatory conducive corrective desirable disease-free energy-giving fresh harmless healing health-giving helpful hygienic innocuous invigorating mitigative nourishing nutritious nutritive profitable pure restorative salubrious salutary sanatory sanitary stimulating sustaining tonic unadulterated unpolluted untainted useful wholesome
Antonyms
WEAK
bad corrupt diseased noxious rotten sickening unhealthful unhealthy
ADJECTIVE
healthsome
Synonyms
WEAK
advantageous aiding aseptic beneficial benign bracing cathartic clean compensatory conducive corrective desirable disease-free energy-giving fresh harmless healing health-giving healthy helpful hygienic innocuous invig
NOUN
gymnastics
Synonyms
STRONG
aerobatics bars calisthenics gym horse rings trampoline trapeze tumbling vaulting workout
WEAK
balance beam floor exercise free exercise

Example Sentences

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During the 1980s, it was used as a sleep aid and a supplement for body building.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2020

St. Brown said he had no desire to get into body building so his father asked him what he wanted to do.

From Washington Times • Sep. 8, 2016

Born Abdelrahman Shalan near Cairo, he began body building at 11 and was 14 when he saw a fellow enthusiast do an unusual high, straight leg lift followed by a stomp.

From Reuters • Jul. 31, 2014

Judge John Woodcock ruled that sleep deprivation, stress, dehydration and ingestion of body building supplements contributed to Stansberry’s break, which lasted several days.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2011

They are not a necessary part of the plan of body building especially recommended in this volume, but are presented merely as a valuable means of varying your efforts in working for increased vitality.

From Vitality Supreme by Macfadden, Bernarr