bodybuilding

or bod·y-build·ing, bod·y build·ing

[ bod-ee-bil-ding ]

noun

1. the act or practice of exercising, lifting weights, etc., so as to develop the muscles of the body.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bodybuilding¹

1900–05; from the verb phrase build ( up one's ) body; -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Arnold Schwarzenegger famously employed friends to add and remove barbell plates to achieve this effect during his bodybuilding career.

From Outside Online

It happens in Reddit threads, bodybuilding forums, and even Instagram pages discussing PEDs.

From Vox

Bodybuilding emerged as commercial enterprise, while college sports and recreational athletics like bicycling picked up.

From Time

Scroll through any weightlifting or bodybuilding forum and it’s easy to feel out of the loop.

From Popular-Science

Morgan was remanded and on Monday he was on his way back to North Carolina, where he was once a bodybuilding champion.

From The Daily Beast

He was a 44-year-old man from North Carolina who had done time in prison and had once been a bodybuilding champion.

From The Daily Beast

He looked far smaller than the legendary Arnold of bodybuilding and movie days.

From The Daily Beast

The world of competitive bodybuilding, and Gov. Schwarzenegger, owed its waxy life to androgens.

From The Daily Beast