crossfit

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — cross sits at #696neutral

Crossfit is training that mixes lifting, gymnastics and running. Do crossfit.

The variety is the whole principle, since no session is meant to be the same as the last. Crossfit is also a brand, which is why gyms have to be licensed to use the name.

Definitions of crossfit

1nouncrossfitTraining that mixes lifting, gymnastics and running.B2
“Crossfit three times a week changed what he could carry.”

crossfit is a training.

Where it comes from

From cross-discipline fitness; the programme was created in the United States in the 1990s and trademarked.

Middle English
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English
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English, today
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From cross-discipline fitness. Equivalent to cross + fit. cross comes from Middle English cross. From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux (crucī). In this sense displaced native Middle English rode, from Old English rōd (“cross”); see rood. a doublet of crouch and crux. Compare Welsh croes, Irish crois. The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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