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wetsuit

n. A close fitting, insulating garment usually made from neoprene or similar material designed to keep one warm during activities on or under water.

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Wetsuit

A wetsuit is a garment, usually made of foamed neoprene, which is worn by surfers, divers, windsurfers, canoeists, and others engaged in water sports, providing thermal insulation, abrasion resistance and buoyancy. The insulation properties depend on bubbles of gas enclosed within the material, which reduce its ability to conduct heat. The bubbles also give the wetsuit a low density, providing buoyancy in water.

Hugh Bradner, a University of California, Berkeley physicist invented the modern wetsuit in 1952. Wetsuits became available in the mid-1950s and evolved as the relatively fragile foamed neoprene was first backed, and later sandwiched, with thin sheets of tougher material such as nylon or later Lycra/Spandex. Improvements in the way joints in the wetsuit were made by gluing, taping and blindstitching, helped the suit to remain waterproof and reduce flushing, the replacement of water trapped between suit and body by cold water from the outside. Further improvements in the seals at the neck, wrists and ankles produced a suit known as a "semi-dry".

Different types of wetsuit are made for different uses and for different temperatures. Suits range from a thin (2 mm or less) "shortie", covering just the torso, to a full 8 mm semi-dry, usually complemented by neoprene boots, gloves and hood.

Usage examples of "wetsuit".

He wore a wetsuit of thin neoprene so tight it left no anatomical feature to the imagination.

Bonterre peeled off her wetsuit, packed it into a deck locker, wrung out her hair, and turned toward Hatch.

On the far side of the observation deck he could see Isobel Bonterre, her wetsuit shining damply in the sun.

He hoisted his buttocks onto the bottom step of the landing and removed his mask, blinking his eyes to adjust to the eerie strangeness of the light The tightness of the wetsuit began to irritate his arm.

Believing the stolen stamps were in the castle chapel, Andy had planned to cheat his partner by sneaking in through the moat - wearing a wetsuit, perhaps?

There was always a rubber wetsuit lying around the place somewhere, stinking.

He himself was wearing a one-piece shorty wetsuit against the chilly breeze and cold water.

He looked like a stranger in the black wetsuit that hugged his muscled body, his familiar long hair concealed by the tight rubber hood.

Grabbing the zipper of his wetsuit, he pulled it down, opening an arrow of tanned, muscled chest, abs and belly until his long cock leaped from the opening like a hungry animal.

Surfers in black wetsuits waited on rocking boards like a scattered flock of sea birds.

From the parking lot, you could look down on the beach and see young men and women in wetsuits carrying short, pointy boogie boards into the surf.

A crewcut supply clerk hands them Mustang immersion suits, wetsuits, inflatable life vests, and mesh combat vests.

Out of their wetsuits, most Institute personnel favored various swimming costumes.

She remains still as my bride unchains her and helps her out of the wetsuit and the bathing suit beneath it.

In moments he realized the situation, and the wetsuited agent found canisters in his boat before it was completely awash.