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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. a garment, usually consisting of a top and trousers (commonly known as ''tracksuit bottoms'') worn as an outer layer by participants in sporting events such as athletics. The tracksuit is usually designed to be easily removed or replaced, before or after competing. Tracksuits have also been adopted in some cultures as leisurewear.
Wikipedia
A tracksuit is an article of clothing consisting of two parts: trousers and a jacket usually with rear zipper. It was originally intended for use in sports, mainly as what athletes wore over competition clothing (such as running shirt and shorts or a swimsuit) and would take off before competition. In modern times, it has become commonly worn in other contexts. The tracksuit was one of the earliest uses of synthetic fibers in sportswear.
A descendant of the tracksuit, the shell suit, which arrived in the late 1980s, was popular with the hip hop and breakdancing scene of the era. They were manufactured from a mix of cellulose triacetate and polyester making them shiny on the outside, with distinctive combinations of colours.
Most tracksuits have a mesh interior which allows the user to wear them without any undergarment such as underwear. This is much like a bathing suit. Many people wear it for physical exercise sessions. A sauna suit is a specialized form of tracksuit made of a waterproof fabric such as coated nylon or PVC that is designed to make the wearer sweat profusely. Sauna suits are primarily used for temporary weight loss.
Usage examples of "tracksuit".
They packed her clothes, all except for the tracksuit Barbs wore for skydiving, and the dress she had worn to Blackpool when Penny and Kate had to be her proxies on the Big Max.
A bit farther along, a young black guy in a blue tracksuit was being briefed on the merits of a .
He put his specs back on and focused on a black guy in an old, shiny blue tracksuit who had set up shop at the corner of the pub, selling the Big Issue and chatting up the women walking past.
We'd wear tracksuits, gloves, beanies, scarves, anything to keep warm,' she says.
Land Rovers were turning up with people in tracksuits and flak jackets.
She was even elected Moomba Monarch, and tried on the royal robes over her track shoes and tracksuit pants.
Many of them were wearing tracksuits, and given the popularity of jogging in the Pangbourne area no one would have been surprised by a party of jogging teenagers, while the drying blood would soon have resembled the mud splashes of an arduous obstacle race.
Two screws came to my cell, strip-searched me, ordered me to change into a prison-issue tracksuit and handcuffed me.
She was heavy-breasted, her yellow T-shirt tucked into grey tracksuit bottoms, white trainers on her feet, and she reached into the car's back seat for a large canvas bag, which she hauled out.
Bax and Woody were dressed in padded jackets, tracksuit bottoms and Caterpillars.
In training shoes, in tracksuit bottoms (with my stopwatch and mysteroids), I cheer her on from the touchline.
Pamela, in turban, army--surplus leather jacket and tracksuit bottoms that revealed the incipient thickening of her middle, wanted to know.
They only had to wear their tracksuits underneath and could lie out in the mess all day if they had to.
Two men in tracksuits arranged not windscreen wipers, but whole windscreens, and not merely carved out of some poor sod's car but new, straight from the assembly line.
Their log showed that two officers in tracksuits had gone jogging that morning but only one had returned.