tracksuit

US/ˈtɹækˌsut/

nounB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,297 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: tracksuits

A tracksuit is the loose two-piece outfit worn for sport or for lounging. Zip-up top, matching bottoms.

It began as something athletes wore over their kit before a race, which is exactly what the name says, and became ordinary clothing in the 1980s. British English shortens it to trackie and calls the bottoms trackie bottoms. The word carries class associations in Britain that it does not carry elsewhere, which is worth knowing before using it about somebody.

Definitions of tracksuit

1nountracksuitA matching loose top and trousers worn for sport or leisure.B1+
“He came to the door in an old tracksuit.”

Where it comes from

From track + suit.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Clothes & Fashion, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 1 of A Man Called Ove.

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tracksuit in the wild

A tracksuit is an article of clothing consisting of two parts: trousers and a jacket usually with a front zipper.
Tracksuit
Tafazzi is a sort of mime wearing a black tracksuit and a jockstrap, who does nothing but beat his groin with a plastic bottle while wearing a jockstrap.
Tafazzi
Dwyer was part of the 1975 Premiership as a non-player, as he was North's runner in his distinctive fluro orange tracksuit top.
Laurie Dwyer
"Tuulipuvun tuolla puolen" ("Beyond the tracksuit") is a reference to the Finnish tango Satumaa that begins with "Aavan meren tuolla puolen" ("Beyond the wide ocean").
Pulu (album)
In Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom, they are known as tracksuit bottoms or trackies.
Sweatpants

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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