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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fitness
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fitness test
▪ Walcott will have a fitness test this morning to decide whether he can play.
energy/fitness level
▪ Her fitness level is better than that of most 20-year-olds.
fitness freak
▪ a fitness freak
fitness
▪ a fitness fanatic
fitness/dance/fashion etc craze
▪ The jogging craze began in the 1970s.
physical fitness
▪ You need to work on your physical fitness.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
▪ If restoring himself to full driving fitness was one thing, Ferrari was no help on the psychological front.
general
▪ Questions also cover much broader aspects of general health and fitness.
▪ Begin exercises to increase general fitness, start gentle swimming.
▪ Stamina, flexibility, sharp reflexes and general physical fitness are required to perform the fighting movements with ease.
▪ Heartwatch offers an assessment of a person's risk from heart disease and general health and fitness checks.
▪ The question begs: is there, after all these centuries, an absolute best exercise for general fitness?
▪ Training was geared more to general fitness than particular skills, and centred on running and skipping to improve speed and stamina.
▪ Before operation all patients underwent general physical examination and electrocardiographic and lung function studies to determine their general fitness for operation.
▪ It is an excellent way to exercise at home for general fitness and as a preparation for skiing.
inclusive
▪ To what extent its reproductive strategies emphasize such altruism depends on the pay-off of such strategies in terms of inclusive fitness.
▪ Those that increase inclusive fitness through behaviour facilitating reproduction by relatives are nepotistic.
▪ Both, however, exist to maximize the inclusive fitness of breeding in their exponents.
▪ All individuals are closely related and the behaviour probably maintains a high degree of inclusive fitness for all parties.
▪ Finally, the superego again acts as regulator over the tendency towards maximum inclusive fitness.
late
▪ Lancashire will make a late fitness check on Orrell hooker Neil Hitchen, who is recovering from a neck injury.
▪ Striker Paul Rideout faces a late fitness test on a shoulder injury.
▪ Wimbledon v Oldham Warren Barton faces a late fitness test.
▪ But Durie picked up a knee injury and faces a late fitness test before today's game against Everton.
▪ Southend await a late fitness test on Andy Ansah before naming today's side.
new
▪ Bodifit kicks off! NEW fitness club Bodifit kicked off last week with an official opening by the Glentoran football squad.
physical
▪ A surge of participation in evening classes and sports is as much about a search for companionship as mental and physical fitness.
▪ Too many hours in front of the computer screen can destroy physical fitness.
▪ Teeth Dental health is an important ingredient of total physical fitness.
▪ Stamina, flexibility, sharp reflexes and general physical fitness are required to perform the fighting movements with ease.
▪ Then there was the small matter of my physical fitness.
▪ Once we started trekking we soon discovered that mental attitude and camaraderie were far more important than physical fitness.
▪ Nupa emphasized physical fitness and organized discipline.
▪ Or work on your physical fitness?
■ NOUN
centre
▪ Two full size soccer pitches, and inside a fully equipped fitness centre complement the gymnasium and provide a comprehensive community facility.
▪ Leogang also has a super leisure and fitness centre, with a heated open-air swimming pool.
▪ Amenities include health and fitness centre with squash courts and indoor pool.
▪ There's also a good restaurant, bar and rooftop fitness centre with sauna, solarium and jacuzzi.
▪ The Hotel's fitness centre offers extensive facilities. 319 bedrooms, all ensuite, 24 hour room service.
▪ The hotel fitness centre is definitely worth a visit to enjoy a Roman-style steam bath, sauna, swimming-pool and whirlpool.
facility
▪ A Northallerton Town football player has been signed up to improve fitness facilities at Hambleton leisure centres.
▪ Another snack bar serves the fifth floor fitness facility.
▪ Lakeside leisure complex with pool and extensive health and fitness facilities.
▪ Athletic Club were only a fitness facility it would be the best Downtown and one of the best in the entire city.
▪ Regular travellers committed to such programmes are likely to choose hotels providing appropriate health and fitness facilities.
freak
▪ Arkwright Myers, a fifty-year-old fitness freak, introduces himself as the owner.
level
▪ Again, the amount of time you run depends on your current fitness level.
▪ So far, no other study linking obesity to ill health has factored in the subjects' fitness level.
▪ The main physical benefit is improving the fitness level as measured by the maximum oxygen uptake.
▪ Thirty-six percent of doctors said they were dissatisfied with their overall fitness level.
▪ Admittedly, these were early days in the season, before the tough training schedule at Richmond had beefed up fitness levels.
▪ Maintain your fitness level during this period but cut out sparring.
▪ What it fails to say is that it is a high intensity workout which does not suit all fitness levels.
▪ Even if it did, how can players keep those fitness levels up?
programme
▪ Get working on a fitness programme to suit you - it will alleviate that post-winter sluggish feeling too.
▪ At last you are ready to get properly started on your own personal health and fitness programme.
▪ Within the next few months he hopes to introduce an individual fitness programme for people using the centres.
▪ Others crouched on their haunches and kicked out their back legs behind them, like men carrying out a complex fitness programme.
▪ That's why I believe my New Body Plan is the most effective diet and fitness programme ever.
▪ It can be dangerous to over-exert yourself greatly at the beginning of your fitness programme.
▪ Last year Ruth taught primary-school teachers undergoing a government-sponsored fitness programme.
▪ If the insides of the thighs are stretching, then you are attempting this exercise too early in your fitness programme.
room
▪ There's also a fitness room, sauna and turkish steam bath.
▪ Other facilities include a bar, an excellent restaurant, swimming pool, fitness room, sauna, solarium &038; skittle alley.
▪ A sauna is available free twice a week and there is also a fitness room.
▪ Tennis courts, a fitness room, sauna, massage and beauty parlour are all available at a charge payable locally.
▪ Swimming: Large pool with waterfall, fountain, showers, sauna, whirlpool and fitness room.
▪ There's a fitness room, sauna and a solarium.
▪ There's a reception area and bar, comfortable dining room, plus a fitness room, sauna and indoor swimming-pool.
▪ Warrender Sports Centre runs induction classes for newcomers to the fitness room.
test
▪ A fitness test this morning will decide which of the two starts.
▪ Town could have some team problems tomorrow; keeper Nicky Hammond is facing a fitness test.
▪ During the two weeks of glorious sunshine, we all did our annual weapons, first aid and fitness tests.
▪ He faces a fitness test today on the hamstring strain that has kept him out for two matches.
▪ Villa give Dalian Atkinson fitness test on a stomach strain.
▪ Nicky Summerbee has come through a fitness test on a leg strain.
▪ And all this bollocks about waiting for Pearce to fail the fitness test.
training
▪ Derrick took up fitness training just 13 years ago after his jewellery importing business folded.
▪ Some are veritable campuses where students can learn about logarithms as well as lobs, fine arts as well a s fitness training.
▪ They will have to do a lot of physical fitness training.
▪ To earn it one's sponsor suggested that fitness training should start now.
■ VERB
face
▪ Town could have some team problems tomorrow; keeper Nicky Hammond is facing a fitness test.
▪ He faces a fitness test today on the hamstring strain that has kept him out for two matches.
▪ Striker Paul Rideout faces a late fitness test on a shoulder injury.
▪ Wimbledon v Oldham Warren Barton faces a late fitness test.
▪ But Durie picked up a knee injury and faces a late fitness test before today's game against Everton.
improve
▪ The main physical benefit is improving the fitness level as measured by the maximum oxygen uptake.
▪ Join a health club to improve your fitness and figure. look carefully at your clothes.
▪ A Northallerton Town football player has been signed up to improve fitness facilities at Hambleton leisure centres.
▪ It isn't necessary to run seven days a week to improve fitness.
▪ To succeed again they will have to improve their fitness and concentration, the only flaws in an otherwise faultless game-plan.
▪ They are designed to keep the body supple, develop co-ordination and improve poise and general fitness.
▪ A student undergoes a prolonged period of performing stamina exercises aimed at raising the heart rate and improving overall fitness.
increase
▪ Begin exercises to increase general fitness, start gentle swimming.
prove
▪ He was given an ultimatum by Murphy to prove his fitness by Friday but went well in training on Monday.
▪ Recent California proposals attempt to shift the burden to parents to prove their fitness.
▪ The club however are believed to be in no hurry to agree until he proves his fitness.
▪ I believe old Mel played in some pre-season games and proved his fitness??
▪ Stuart Ripley and Andy Payton proved their fitness as second-half substitutes against Brighton.
work
▪ Get working on a fitness programme to suit you - it will alleviate that post-winter sluggish feeling too.
▪ About five years ago, when he first learned that he might become ill, Dominic worked with a fitness trainer.
▪ The programme first of all explains how a Bouncer works on fitness in general and in rehabilitation plus other problems such as arthritis.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Join a health club to improve your fitness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Experience, training and fitness sets hotshots apart from so-called Type 2 crews, the infantry of firefighting.
▪ Greater levels of fitness and better team organisation are two of the more obvious modern achievements.
▪ I liked him instantly, especially as he was a fitness fanatic and his body was solid and taut.
▪ Let's hope he is able to get in some training at his field hospital so that he at least stays in touch with his fitness.
▪ Strategies that maximize the individual fitness component may be termed selfish.
▪ The vital combination of technique, fitness and mental strength had all noticeably progressed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fitness

Fitness \Fit"ness\, n. The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fitness

1570s, "state or quality of being suitable," from fit (adj.) + -ness. Meaning "state of being physically fit" is from 1935.

Wiktionary
fitness

n. 1 The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate. 2 The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.

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WordNet
fitness

  1. n. the condition of being suitable; "they had to prove their fitness for the position" [syn: fittingness] [ant: unfitness]

  2. good physical condition; being in shape or in condition [syn: physical fitness, good shape, good condition] [ant: unfitness]

  3. fitness to traverse the seas [syn: seaworthiness]

  4. the quality of being qualified

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Wikipedia
Fitness (biology)

Fitness (often denoted w or ω in population genetics models) is a central idea in evolutionary and sexual selection theories. It can be defined either with respect to a genotype or to a phenotype in a given environment. In either case, it describes individual reproductive success and is equal to the average contribution to the gene pool of the next generation that is made by an average individual of the specified genotype or phenotype. The term "Darwinian fitness" can be used to make clear the distinction with physical fitness.

Where fitness is affected by differences between various alleles of a given gene, the relative frequency of those alleles will change across generations by natural selection and alleles with greater positive effect on individual fitness will become more common over time; this process is known as natural selection. Fitness does not include a measure of survival or life-span; the well known phrase Survival of the fittest should be interpreted as: "Survival of the form (phenotypic or genotypic) that will leave the most copies of itself in successive generations."

Fitness can only measure heritable differences, and these can then be chosen in mate choice, causing sexual selection. An individual's fitness is manifested through its phenotype, which is affected by the developmental environment as well as by genes, and the fitness of a given phenotype can be different in different environments. The fitnesses of different individuals with the same genotype are therefore not necessarily equal. However, since the fitness of the genotype is an averaged quantity, it will reflect the reproductive outcomes of all individuals with that genotype in a given environment or set of environments.

Inclusive fitness differs from individual fitness by including the ability of an allele in one individual to promote the survival and/or reproduction of other individuals that share that allele, in preference to individuals with a different allele. One mechanism of inclusive fitness is kin selection.

Fitness

Fitness may refer to:

  • Physical fitness, a general state of good health, usually as a result of exercise and nutrition
  • Fitness (biology), an individual's ability to propagate its genes
  • Fitness (magazine), a women's magazine, focusing on health and exercise
  • Fitness and figure competition, a form of physique training, related to bodybuilding
  • Fitness approximation, a method of function optimization evolutionary computation or artificial evolution methodologies
  • Fitness function, a particular type of objective function in mathematics and computer science
Fitness (magazine)

Fitness is a United States-based women's magazine, focusing on health, exercise, and nutrition. It is owned and published by the Meredith Corporation. The editor-in-chief of Fitness is Betty Wong.

Fitness (cereal)

Fitness, also known as Fitnesse or Nestlé Fitness; is a brand of breakfast cereals and cereal/ granola bars produced by Nestlé and Cereal Partners.

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Usage examples of "fitness".

The chief secret, however, of the origin of the peculiar phrases under consideration consisted in their striking fitness to the nature and facts of the case, their adaptedness to express these facts in a bold and vivid manner.

I occasionally tried standing up, stretching, swivelling like Olympic atheletes do after gulping their anabolic steroids before track events, but you get fed up with fitness so I sat down again.

Our travellers might, in another mood and place, have thought it droll to arrive at that sublime spectacle through a Bierhaus, but in this enchanted city it seemed to have a peculiar fitness.

That forms new and generally more sophisticated offspring programs that are then evaluated for mating on the basis of their fitness, et cetera, et cetera.

Secondly, the reason of this fitness may be taken from the end of the union, which is the fulfilling of predestination, i.

If I could get Adelheid for him, then there would only be Ironhead to drive out, and the child he needs to prove his fitness is already born.

The long hair down to the shoulders, the fillet of cloth of gold round the head, the kreese adorned with precious stones and with the blade curved, the cock-fighting, the gold and spices and sandalwood, all bear their abundant testimony to the fitness of the application of the description to the Island of Madura.

No one else among lyrists within the period defined, has such unfailing freshness: so much variety within the sphere prescribed to himself: such closeness to nature, whether in description or in feeling: such easy fitness in language: melody so unforced and delightful.

There the Latinist and sophister and every unlearned writer tries the fitness of his pen, a practice that we have frequently seen injuring the usefulness and value of the most beautiful books.

Coupons for fitness centers on my desk, links for vomitoriums in my mail.

Hence it follows that a thing is said to be assumable according to some fitness for such a union.

In this connection, longevity is of course a mark of vitality and physical fitness.

But the test oath prescribed after the Civil War, whereby office holders, teachers, or preachers were required to swear that they had not participated in the Rebellion, were held invalid on the ground that it had no reasonable relation to fitness to perform official or professional duties, but rather was a punishment for past offenses.

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Yes, fitness, a fitness not simply of body, or even of mind, but of things in general, an acceptance of life as it was without the insidious subversion of questions or the dangerous speculations which had gained momentum since.