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noun

a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.

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Origin of track suit

First recorded in 1950–55

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How to use track suit in a sentence

She looks like your typical granny—gray hair, wrinkles, dentures—and slowly stumbles about her apartment in a magenta tracksuit.
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Others were paired with sportswear-inspired tops—think a tracksuit zip-up made glam with diagonal decorative panels.
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Wikipedia says sweatpants, otherwise known as tracksuit bottoms, are “one of the most commonly worn items of clothing.”
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Carter remembers that Oprah directed her to find the “ugliest” tracksuit she could find.
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She's wearing a red tracksuit, and her honey-colored hair is pulled back tightly.
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British Dictionary definitions for track suit

tracksuit

/ (ˈtrækˌsuːt, -ˌsjuːt) /

noun

a warm suit worn by athletes, etc, usually over the clothes, esp during training

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