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

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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More recently his videos showed him conducting body-building gymnastics.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025

The full Arnold Sports Festival was canceled last year, though a small body-building competition was held in September.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2022

My power-lifting and body-building buddies got a shout-out in the acknowledgements.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 7, 2019

Schwarzenegger, who was in town for the Arnold Sports Festival, a giant body-building and fitness extravaganza, said he first met Kasich as a candidate for Congress in the early 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2016

With such a combination, the protein can be used to best advantage for body-building.

From School and Home Cooking by Greer, Carlotta Cherryholmes

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