lycra

1. uncountableLetter case form of Lycra.

   Much of the lycra on show began life hugging torsos on other continents.

   2009 January 16, Xan Rice, “One man's quest to find first black winner of the Tour de France”, in The Guardian

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   In recent seasons fetishwear has found its way onto the catwalk, with vinyl, PVC and lycra featuring among the most unlikely designer offerings.

   1996, Caryn Franklin, Franklin on fashion

plural Lycras · alternative lycra

1. uncountableA type of synthetic elastic fabric and fibre (spandex) used for tight-fitting garments, such as swimming costumes.
2. uncountableClothing made from such materials, especially with reference to cycling shorts.
3. countableA tight-fitting garment made of Lycra.

   Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.

   2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times