Meaning

(intransitive) To get athletic or act in an athletic way..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To get athletic or act in an athletic way.
2. (transitive) To make athletic.

Example Sentences

You won't athletize without regular exercise.

I neither rode recklessly, flirted'desperately, carried clothes imperially, turned men's heads, broke their hearts, sang divinely, athletized, literatized, antagonized.

We must remember that they are athletes, now athletes do not 'sleep': they are forever athletizing: awake or dreaming.

Glenn needed to use his strength- get verticle and jumpshoot- to out athletize Mullin, but only really did this once.

Months of training finally athletized my skinny body.

To do this rightly, a certain and well-chosen series of exercises, calculated to athletize the Intellect, will require to be undertaken, and in its accomplishment certain qualities of thought will be elicited, produced, or won and nourished.

But if woman is still to be regarded as the mother of our race, it's high time to ask if this over-athletized framework of bone and sinew, with its muscle-bound torso and its over-tensioned nerves and its stultified glands, is equipped for its final job.

Sometimes I think that disco and the red hot chili peppers ruined funk music by 1) forcing a great, raw & organic funky music into an electronic context, and 2) making every jock-rock idiot bass player think that funk is about athletizing music and slapping and popping a whole lot.

Word Forms

• athletizes
• athletizing
• athletized

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When Should You Use Athletize?

Use athletize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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