wristband

[ rist-band ]

noun

1. the band of a sleeve, especially that of a shirt sleeve, that covers the wrist.
2. a strap attached to a wrist watch and worn around the wrist.
3. a sweatband worn on the wrist to absorb perspiration.

wristband

/ ˈrɪstˌbænd /

noun

1. a band around the wrist, esp one attached to a watch or forming part of a long sleeve
2. a sweatband around the wrist

Word History and Origins

Origin of wristband¹

First recorded in 1565–75; wrist + band ²

Example Sentences

Other quarterbacks wanted wristbands with play calls connected to a number Arians called.

From Washington Post

Borrowing an idea from the Super Mario franchise, visitors can collect virtual coins by wearing a dedicated wristband as they explore the area and interact with park features via a Switch console.

From Fortune

To help himself, Matte wore a wristband that included a small play card.

From Washington Post

The first night one of my engineers hooked me up with the infrared wristband, I was walking around in the dark between two houses and suddenly I felt a bunch of buzzing on my wrist.

From Nautilus

In China, people were required to wear a digital wristband and download the StayHomeSafe app, which worked together to enforce quarantine requirements.

From MIT Technology Review

The folks at PTI should have made Rice reinforce his own awareness by wearing a purple wristband.

From The Daily Beast

Seriously athletes wear heart-rate monitors, not wristband trackers.

From The Daily Beast

Similarly the Kapture is “an audio-recording wristband for saving and sharing what was just said,” according to its brochure.

From The Daily Beast

The Pebble comes close, but it still looks like a computer sitting on a wristband.

From The Daily Beast

In scenes, he almost always wore a thick wristband and a smile on his face, his friends told The Daily Beast when he died.

From The Daily Beast

Their voluminousness of wristband, with an air of excessive frankness, should betray them at once.

From Project Gutenberg

Another little thing that might have helped was the cabman's number written on his wristband.

From Project Gutenberg

And at the last moment I could not make out what I had written on my wristband as a mem.

From Project Gutenberg

Believe us, reader, there is no more distinctive mark of a correct man than a snowy-white wristband, always to be visible.

From Project Gutenberg

It marked all faces, and it lodged between neck and neckband and wrist and wristband where it chafed the skin.

From Project Gutenberg