Lycra

[lahy-kruh]

Trademark.

1. a brand of spandex.

Lycra

/ ˈlaɪkrə /

noun

1. a type of synthetic elastic fabric and fibre used for tight-fitting garments, such as swimming costumes

Example Sentences

The court heard that the homebase team became known by others in the NOS as the "Lycra Lovelies" because of their clothes.

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Ms Evans said: "Chris used to say it was very important people dressed in what was called 'the culture'…It often involved black Lycra leggings, tight-fitting tops and that sort of thing."

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With sideburns and the sharpest mod feather cut, he even looked good in Lycra.

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Despite difficult times, and at the very beginning not liking cycling's "helmets, Lycra and baffling" terminology, she sees her future in the sport.

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Because once, that ravenous desire for uniqueness — seen in our skin-tight lycra with a cartoonish depiction of what looks like the Milky Way, worn with studded Jeffrey Campbell Litas for good measure — was a vehicle powerful enough to launch someone into transcendence.

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