Find the word definition

WordNet
athletic type

n. muscular and big-boned [syn: mesomorphy]

Usage examples of "athletic type".

Good-looking athletic type, auburn hair, carried an equipment pack instead of a purse?

Sean was a slender, athletic type, close-cropped blonde hair and a certain slouchiness that betrayed his slacker stature.

I'm more the athletic type, she thought, taking Lulu's arm, she makes a better impression than I do when we're dressed, but naked, I'm sure I'm better than she is.

Another, a big athletic type with long black hair halfway down his back and a scraggly beard, got the edge of the right door and swung up on the trunk lid.

I didn't think it was very funny then, and I didn't think it was very funny when it reappeared as Heaven Can Wait, though Warren Beatty did a nice job as the dumb athletic type (a football player now) and Dyan Cannon shrieked to great effect a couple of times.

Though not exactly an athletic type, she gave one the same impression of strength and vitality as did her brother.

She was pulling on big, ugly, furred gloves, and Monte Irvin mentally contrasted her fresh, athletic type of beauty with the delicate, exotic charm of his wife.

Marq wasn't the athletic type and she knew that if she landed right on the mud below she wouldn't twist an ankle or anything.